The case, in which the 17-year-old Gentileschi and her father pressed charges against Tassi, was unprecedented at the time ...

Rare self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi as ‘one of history’s most courageous women’ up for auction - Gentileschi’s work and life have become a greater source of fascination in recent years ...

Between now and April, visitors to Florence’s Casa Buonarroti, the house museum of Italian Renaissance great Michelangelo, are in for a treat. They can watch a team of experts as they work to restore ...

The life of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1652), the great Baroque painter who is the subject of the London National Gallery’s much heralded exhibition, will be the focus of a new scripted television ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the ...

In 1616, the 22-year-old artist Artemisia Gentileschi painted a nude woman perched in the clouds and holding a compass at the Florence home of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, Michaelangelo's ...

ROME - Artemisia Gentileschi was unusual for achieving success as a female painter in the male-dominated art world of the 17th century. But many admirers know her more for her fame in courageously ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, “Portrait of an Unidentified Man” (1630-1640) (image from speronewestwater.com) The Bowery isn’t the first place in New York you’d think of to run into a Baroque Old Master ...

The bare-chested woman holds a dagger to her bosom. Her sorrowful face, cast in shadows, looks heavenward. The painting, titled “Lucretia” in honor of the Roman heroine who killed herself after being ...

A new blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery in London shows the artist’s defiant strength, forged in the trials she endured. Two versions of Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith and Holofernes,” ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the ...