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I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi

Born: July 8, 1593

Died: 1653 (aged 59)

Bio: Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.

Known for:

Judith Slaying Holofernes
Susanna and the Elders (1610)
Judith and her Maidservant (1613)
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (1639)
Esther and Ahasuerus (1630)

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