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Giuditta con la sua ancella (c.1623-1625)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Giuditta con la sua ancella (Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes) c.1623–1625 Oil on canvas, 187.2 × 142 × 3.3 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit This impressive composition was made by Artemisia Gentileschi, the…

Ester e Assuero (1620s)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1620s Oil on canvas, 208.3 × 273.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This…

Lucrezia (c.1539)

Parmigianino (1503-1540) Lucrezia (Lucretia) c.1539 Watercolor over black chalk, 29.8 x 20.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Mariana (1851)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…

Infanta Margarita Teresa con vestido rosa (1654)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Infanta Margarita Teresa con vestido rosa (Infanta Margarita Teresa in pink dress) 1654 Oil on canvas, 128 × 99.6 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Margarita was the first child of the marriage between King Philip IV and his…