FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the ...

A quartet of paintings by Italian female Old Masters—all newly rediscovered—are hitting the auction block at Dorotheum in Vienna. Cavallino is a significant name in his own right, with a $3.9 million ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" (1639 or 1640) (photo by Børre Høstland, all images courtesy the National Museum) Almost 400 years after her death, ...

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For centuries the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was a footnote to art history, known mainly for her savage canvas “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (1619-20), a work that some scholars saw ...

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Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the ...

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