The buyer sent the painting to Simon Gillespie Studio for a restoration, where it was confirmed that the 17th-century woman was indeed the artist behind the work. Artemisia Gentileschi's David and ...

O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet… Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” (1620-21). (Credit: Catholic News Agency.) Listen ROME –– Baroque Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi is hailed as a ‘feminist icon’ based on her ...

An image of the 16th century Council of Trent, which launched what came to be known as the Catholic Counter-Reformation. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen Among other things, 2017 marks the 500th ...

The Counter-Reformation of the mid-16th century was a Roman Catholic call for reform in the wake of immoral papal policies. The Church struck back with banned books and inquisitions against heresy – ...

For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio, who was also a painter.