In her painting “Judith and Holofernes,” the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi portrays the most dramatic moment of the tale from the apocryphal Book of Judith. In the dramatic ...

Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith and Holofernes" (c. 1612-17) and Kehinde Wiley's "Judith and Holofernes" (2012) are on view in the Caroline Weiss Law Building grand lobby near Cullinan Hall.

Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi seemed to be making a statement that women must stand together in her 17th-century version of Judith and Holofernes.

Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes” (1639 or 1640) (photo by Børre Høstland, all images courtesy the National Museum) ...

The book starts off with a magical rendition of Artemisia's childhood, the day she witnesses a beheading. It's thrilling and wonderful to see the world from the eyes of 6-year-old Artemisia to ...

Susanna and the Elders, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi in the late 1630s, was commissioned by a queen — but it was later lost. It's now back on display, after being restored.

Judith W. Mann, curator of European art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, wrote, ”Artemisia has presented her in her post-conversion state, completely at peace with her newfound path.

After striving for recognition and ultimately gaining it as the greatest woman painter of the Baroque era, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) fell into relative obscurity after her death until ...

DISOBEDIENT: A Novel. By Elizabeth Fremantle. Pegasus Books. 368 pages. $26.95. Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting skills quickly surpass her father’s, but society dictates that as a woman, she ...