Artemisia Gentileschi: Painter to the Medici and Charles I (Part 2)

How did Artemisia Gentileschi become the first woman to be elected to Florence's Academy of Arts? And why did she end up in London working as court painter to Charles I? Join Alastair and James as they explore how Artemisia continued to forge her own path in the final decades of her remarkable life. Artworks in this episode include: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1616, National Gallery, London Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes c. 1620, Uffizi Gallery, Florence Orazio Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, 1624, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford<...