"Indexing Gentileschi's oeuvre back to the rape and trial reinscribes the painter as an adolescent sex object, rather than an eminent adult artist with a 40-year career across major European cities. It also means that several of her paintings have been misattributed or overlooked because they didn't correspond to the tropes of stricken or vengeful […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM on June 11, 2020