A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Gentileschi, (Artemisia)

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A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country
by Mary Matilda Betham
Gentileschi, (Artemisia)
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3867643A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country — Gentileschi, (Artemisia)Mary Matilda Betham
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GENTILESCHI (ARTEMISIA), Daughter of Oratio Gentileschi, an Artist of great repute in Historical and Portrait Paintings, Native of Pisa.

She excelled her father in the latter, and was but little inferior to him in historical pictures. She lived for the most part at Naples in great splendor, and was as famous all over Europe for her gallantry, as for her talents.

Fresnoy's Art of Painting,

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