Artemisia Gentileschi. The Language Of Painting

In 1593, Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome. With famed Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi as her father, Gentileschi was exposed to art at a young age. As a teenager, she worked alongside her father in his studio, where she learned the fundamentals of painting and completed Susanna and the Elders, her earliest known work of art.

Editors' Tip: Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting. Hailed as one of the most influential and expressive painters of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1656) has figured prominently in the art historical discourse of the past two decades.