What A Woman Can Do: The Illustrious Artemisia Gentileschi

This episode for Women's History Month C takes us on a journey to Baroque era Italy and introduces us to one of the greats: Artemisia Gentileschi. A woman is more than just the stories they tell about her, more than her deeds, but Artemisia certainly lived a life with many great stories. One of the most famous artists of her era but shortly forgotten by history, her amazing tale and incredible artworks have been revived by women dedicated to bringing her epic life and artworks back into the public consciousness and now C is doing her part to present to you, dear listener, a story about a woman we all should know by now. You've seen her painting of Judith Slaying Holofernes, but there is so much to this artist than just the canvases she left behind.

Sources and links to paintings

Garrard, Mary D. (1989). Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art. 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/a-fuller-picture-of-artemisia-gentileschi

Cropper, Elizabeth (2020). "Artemisia Gentileschi: La Pittora".

https://dia.org/collection/judith-and-her-maidservant-head-holofernes-45746

https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/artemisia-gentileschi/susanna-and-the-elders/

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/15612/

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103QTA

https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/judith-beheading-holofernes

https://www.caravaggio.org/judith-beheading-holofernes.jsp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_and_the_Elders_(Artemisia_Gentileschi,_Bologna)#/media/File:Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Susanna_and_the_Elders_near_a_Balcony.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene_in_Ecstasy#/media/File:Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Mary_Magdalene_in_Ecstasy.jpg