Self-Portrait as a Lute Player
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1616
Why it's great
A woman in a rich golden dress looks out from the picture, holding a lute, and she looks up as if she is thinking about a tune. Artemisia Gentileschi painted herself in about 1616.
Where to see it
📍 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHartford, United States
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Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter born in Rome in 1593, the daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi. She was one of the first women to become a successful professional painter in Europe, and her powerful pictures often show strong women from the Bible and myths. She died in Naples in about 1653.
