Gentileschi, Artemisia (c. 1593–c. 1652)

Italian painter. She trained under Agostino Tassi (c. 1580–1644) and her father Orazio Gentileschi, though her work is more melodramatic than his. Active in England 1638–39, Florence, and Rome, she settled in Naples from about 1630, working in a heavily Caravaggesque style. She focused on macabre and grisly subjects popular during her day, most notably Judith Decapitating Holofernes (c. 1620).