Earl R. Merrill: The National Gallery Of London Buys A Painting By Artemnesia Gentileschi, Raising Its Number Of Works By Women To 21

Sunday, July 8, 2018

The National Gallery Of London Buys A Painting By Artemnesia Gentileschi, Raising Its Number Of Works By Women To 21

That’s out of 2300 artworks that the National Gallery owns, by the way. But anyway, the National Gallery spent millions of pounds on this rare painting. Gentileschi “was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia del Disegno in Florence and largely rejected the subject matter expected of female artists, preferring to paint heroic women, often in the nude.”