Woman Painting

Regular visitors to this blog will know that I have been showing paintings on Saturdays -- not every Saturday, but as often as I can -- and that I have focused mainly on pictures of women reading or women writing. I've now got really interested in women artists, and though I have a small collection of self-portraits lined up, some of the ones I put up in the coming weeks may be BY women but not necessarily OF women. This one, though, is a self-portrait by the Italian Baroque painter  Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593–ca. 1656). You might have heard of her before, as there is a biography and a film, neither of which I am familiar with yet, though I am about to order the DVD from my rental service. I shall show some more of her work in the coming weeks.