A new Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition in Paris showcases never-before-seen paintings that shed new light on the artist.

naked women, and costly tableware,” writes James Clifton, director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and curator of Renaissance and Baroque painting at the Museum of Fine Arts ...

"There were also women." In modern art, there's more gender parity. But when you browse through collections of medieval, Renaissance or Baroque art, it's mostly male artists. "I think there have ...

and look at paintings of murderous women. I don’t think I’m alone in this; Renaissance and Baroque depictions of Judith beheading Holofernes, Orpheus being ripped apart by Maenads, and ...

State of play: Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman accepted to the Florence Academy of Fine Art, painted the piece around 1625. It depicts Saint Mary Magdalene, a central figure in Christianity ...

Art restorers have embarked on a project to digitally unveil what was once a nude painting by Italian baroque artist Artemisia ... a gamechanger" for her and women artists that followed, Falcone ...

Elisabetta Sirani: Maestra of Baroque Bologna is a concentrated ... She also established the first art academy for women outside of a convent. Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici, among many others ...

The term became shorthand for a voluptuous female body, alluding to the Flemish Baroque master ... how essential women were in the story of his life,” says the art historian Amy Orrock ...

Peter Paul Rubens is an artist renowned "as a painter of flesh", said Hannah McGivern in The Art Newspaper. Indeed, such was the Flemish baroque ... important role of women in his life.