This is my copy of Artemisia Gentileshci’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura)  c.1638-9 is a self-portrait  by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi.

Few of Artemisia's self-portraits survive and the references to them in the artist's correspondence only hint at what others might have looked like. Gentileschi holds a palette and a raised brush, and wears a gold chain with a mask pendant that symbolizes the imitative nature of art.

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