Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Beheading Holofernes 1612
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Judith Beheading Holofernes 1612
159x126cm oil/canvas
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
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From Art Institute of Chicago:
One of the most famous and skilled painters of the Baroque era, Artemisia Gentileschi was centuries ahead of her time. Among the first women artists to achieve success in the 17th century, she brought to her work an electric sense of narrative drama and a unique perspective that both celebrated and humanized strong women characters. Rediscovered by feminist art historians in the past few decades, Gentileschi has inspired a spate of books, both scholarly and popular, and a number of films. But it is the sensational painting Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620) that epitomizes her career.