The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno is an academy of artists in Florence, in Italy. It was founded on 13 January 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. It was initially k
The Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai, headquarters of the Accademia
Artemisia Gentileschi
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Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing p
Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
…Francesco da Sangallo, Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Giambologna. Most members of the Accademia were male; Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to be admitted. In the twenty-first century its declared purposes are the promotion and diffusion of the arts, and the protection…
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638–39
Judith and Her Maidservant, 1625, Detroit Institute of Arts
Susanna and the Elders, 1610, earliest of her surviving works, Schönborn Collection, Pommersfelden
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1610–1615, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest