Artemisia Gentileschi Trivia Questions

Artemisia Gentileschi's 1620 painting Judith Slaying Holofernes depicts the beheading with striking realism and blood, a hallmark of her dramatic Baroque style.

Orazio Gentileschi was a prominent Baroque painter who trained Artemisia in his workshop and later worked alongside her in London.

The Birth of Venus was painted by Sandro Botticelli in the 1480s. Artemisia Gentileschi is best known for Judith Slaying Holofernes and Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting.

Caravaggio died in 1610 when Artemisia was 17; she was influenced by his style but never studied under him. Her teacher was her father, Orazio.

In 1616, Artemisia Gentileschi was accepted into the prestigious Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence, becoming the first woman admitted to the academy.

Caravaggio had no known children. Artemisia's father was Orazio Gentileschi, a contemporary of Caravaggio but a different painter entirely.

In the late 1630s, Artemisia Gentileschi joined her father in London and worked for King Charles I, painting commissions for the royal court.

Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593. She later worked in Naples, but her birthplace was Rome.