Artemisia Gentileschi was the first artist commissioned for the multi-panel mural and the only woman tasked with making a painting that spoke to the greatness of the Renaissance master.

Art restorers have embarked on a project to digitally unveil what was once a nude painting by Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most prominent female artists from the period.

Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593. Her father, artist Orazio Gentileschi, was a follower of Caravaggio — and that style's dark realism suited itself well to Artemisia's work.

The battle for control over a woman's body. The silencing of women's voices. Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi lived it all in the 1600s, resisted and ultimately won. Gentileschi carved a ...

As the scholar Mary Garrard noted, in a 1989 appraisal titled “Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art,” the painting represents an art-historical innovation ...

Restorer Elizabeth Wicks works on the Allegory of Inclination, a 1616 work by Artemisia Gentileschi, in the Casa Buonarroti Museum, in Florence, Italy, on Wednesday. Art restorers have embarked on ...