Enjoy the paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi online

While museums and galleries might be closed, we can still experience art in the digital realm.

Larry Keith examines Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria’  ©The National Gallery, London

Artemisia Gentileschi was a masterful Italian Baroque painter. Although revered internationally during her lifetime, she has been overlooked by the pages of history, with the story of her rape and the torture she endured at the subsequent trial often overshadowing her exceptional oeuvre.

To celebrate the first acquisition of her work to enter a UK public collection, in the form of the enigmatic Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1615–17), the National Gallery had planned to mount an unprecedented survey of her paintings this April. Although the exhibition is currently suspended, there is still a chance to enjoy images of some of its highlights in our own digital picture gallery.

Self Portrait as a Lute Player, about 1615-18

© Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut 

Judith and her Maidservant, about 1623-5

© The Detroit Institute of Arts

Judith beheading Holofernes, about 1612-13

© ph. Luciano Romano / Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 2016

Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, about 1615-17

© The National Gallery, London 

Susannah and the Elders, 1610
© Kunstsammlungen Graf von Schönborn, Pommersfelden (inv. 191)

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The new dates for Artemisia at the National Gallery are yet to be confirmed

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