Judith Decapitating Holofernes ca. 1610-1612

Artemisia Gentileschi, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Judith, chapters 10-13

Artemisia Gentileschi

Agostino Tassi

Trial in Rome, March-October 1612

"Stuprum"

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

Novel: Alexandra Lapierre,  Artemisia: Un duel pour l'immortalité. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1998.

Film: Artemisia, directed by Agnes Merlet (French 1998)