The London museum’s acquisition of what is believed to be a rare Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait demands a closer look at the world the artist inhabited in 17th-century Florence.

Jesse Locker
Jesse Locker is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art at Portland State University. He is author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press, 2015) and editor of the forthcoming Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance: After Trent (Routledge).