The story is about perhaps the most famous female painter of the 17th century, but whose name largely had been consigned to ...

Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon — a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation.

Mary Magdalen in Meditation (c.1620s pictured above), by the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, sold for £1,400,000 at Sotheby’s, London last month. The most famous female painter of early ...