Tag: Judith Mann

March 7 — SBMA Presents New Understandings of Artemisia Gentileschi at the next Art Matters Lecture

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 to do so