Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon — a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation.

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century, considered a key figure within the Italian Baroque period.

Five years ago, members of a British historical society set out on a search to find a lost 15th-century palace that belonged ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that has been owned by private ...

Mary Magdalen in Meditation (c.1620s pictured above), by the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, sold for £1,400,000 at ...

The new year brings new shows from Amsterdam to Zurich and beyond. Ranging from Marlene Dumas’s contemporary take on ancient art in Athens to Anslem Kiefer’s ties to Van Gogh, here are nine ex ...

“He saw the painting and said ‘Yes, it’s by Artemisia Gentileschi’ and I was just wondering who she was,” says Taylor. Forty years later, Taylor is still trying to solve the mystery ...

It’s been two years since Artemisia Gentileschi’s previously unknown painting Hercules and Omphale (ca. 1630) arrived at the J. Paul Getty Museum after turning up following the tragic ...

A thought-provoking look at the complex life and revolutionary art of Artemisia Gentileschi, a unique painter who was the first to be recognised as a master of light ...

"Susanna and the Elders" was misattributed for some 200 years, first to a male artist and then to the "French School" Teresa Nowakowski An exhibition on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts ...