Simon Vouet
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Simon Vouet was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created reli
Self-portrait (c. 1626–1627) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen (c. 1627), LACMA
David with the Head of Goliath (1620–1622), Palazzo Bianco, Genoa
Vouet family tree, simplified to show those known to be artists: Simon and his father, brother, wife, son, sons-in-law, and grandson
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
Simon Vouet
…color and di sotto in su or foreshortened perspective; and the art of Carracci, Guercino, Lanfranco and Guido Reni. While in Rome he befriended artist Artemisia Gentileschi and painted her portrait in 1623. Vouet's immense success in Rome led to his election as president of the Accademia di San Luca in 1624. His most…
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