State of play: Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman accepted to the Florence Academy of Fine Art, painted the piece around 1625. It depicts Saint Mary Magdalene, a central figure in Christianity ...

After striving for recognition and ultimately gaining it as the greatest woman painter of the Baroque era, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) fell into relative obscurity after her death until scholars ...

A provincial museum in northern France showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters, Lavinia ...