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16. Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), c.1638-39, oil on canvas.

One of the foremost painters of the Baroque period, Artemisia Gentileschi depicts herself as Painting itself. This idea harkens back to the classical Greeks but continued with the Renaissance and the publishing of Iconologia in 1593 by Cesare Ripa. In this book, the iconography for various allegorical figures is established, including Painting. “A woman, beautiful, with full black hair, disheveled, and twisted in various ways, with arched eyebrows that show imaginative thought, the mouth covered with a cloth tied behind her ears, with a chain of gold at her throat from which hangs a mask, and has written in front ‘imitation.’ Artemisia matches this description exactly save for her mouth being covered. She will not be made to keep silent. The movement in this piece is striking. Our eye is made to go directly towards Artemisia’s face before following back and forth along her arms. The background is blank except for this tan tone and a slightly darker band of color on the right of the picture place to give the illusion of the corner of a wall. Her absorption in her work as the focal point of our attention, as art in action, is extraordinarily beautiful.

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