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Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
c. 1638-1639
Gentileschi does something a male artist could not: paints herself as the female personification of Painting itself.
Artist field note
Artemisia Gentileschi
Women act; they are not merely looked at.
The five in one idea
Gentileschi did not simply add women to Baroque painting; she changed where agency sits inside the picture.