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| Jael and Sisera |
Artemisia Gentileschi born in either 1590 or 1593 in Rome. She was raised by her father who was an artist. She died in either 1652, 1653 or 1656.
She painted many Biblical themes. Her focus on women killing men may have been due to the fact that she was raped by Agostino Tassi, the man who her father hired to protect her.
Most of the women in those paintings are self-portraits. One presumes that the men were modeled after Tassi.
Four hundred years later we are still cheering as Artemisia extracts her revenge. For the record, "Artemisia" is the diminutive form of "Artemis" the Greek goddess of hunting.
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| Judith decapitating Holofernes |
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| St Catherine with a self-portrait of the artist as the model |
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| Madonna |
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| Birth of John the Baptist. Zechariah in the background writing checks. |
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