Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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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