The female painter who challenged Caravaggio: Artemisia Gentileschi with Judith Beheading Holofernes

This painting is one of the most gruesome ever and, even in a 17th century pretty open-minded Florence, was considered unusually violent.

Even more unusual since the painter was a woman...
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