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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Artemisia Gentileschi
![Artemisia Gentileschi](/img/nopic_profile.png)
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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