Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi stands among the most distinctive painters of the Baroque, associated with the Caravaggesque current of dramatic light and forceful narrative. Her subjects were frequently women of biblical and ancient history, rendered with an intensity of gesture and chiaroscuro that set her apart from her contemporaries. The archive holds a single painting by her hand, executed in oil on canvas; "Esther before Ahasuerus" is the example title recorded for it. No further works by Gentileschi are represented here, so this one canvas carries the collection's entire witness to her art.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
