Judith Decapitating Holofernes ca. 1620

Artemisia Gentileschi, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Judith, chapters 10-13

Artemisia Gentileschi

Agostino Tassi

Trial in Rome, March-October 1612

Artemisia married Pierantonio Stiatessi in November 1612

Mary D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989).

Elizabeth S. Cohen, "No Longer Virgins:  Self-Representation in Young Women in Late Renaissance Rome,:  Refiguring Women:  Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance, ed. Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991) 169-191

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, ed. Christensen, Keith and Mann, Judith W. (New Haven-New York: Yale University Press and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001). Exhibitions in Rome, New York, and Saint Louis

Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Milan: Skira editore, 2007.   Exhibition in Washington, DC