Description Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio.
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Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century.
Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honor was everything.
As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities.
Description Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio