Artemisia Gentileschi: New Understandings
Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CAArt Matters Lecture with Judith Mann Over the last 75 years, Artemisia Gentileschi has developed into an icon of female empowerment and the emotive drama of baroque painting. Identified with images of Judith decapitating the general Holofernes, she has come to be understood as a woman who succeeded in a man’s world, overcoming considerable obstacles