Artemisia Gentileschi : Female Baroque Artist
Early Age
One of the most accomplished artists of her age, heavily influenced by Caravaggio and a great exponent of the early Baroque style. Artemisia Gentileschi was born in 1593 in Rome, the daughter of the artist Orazio Gentileschi, she learnt to paint from a young age. Hanging around his studio, she helped mixing and grinding his paints and sketching and painting with him.
A great historical article about an artist who championed for women, one of the "most accomplished painters in the generation after Caravaggio" (Wikipedia)
