Ahead of an exhibition devoted to Italy’s greatest female artist, discover some of the country’s finest treasures

Long before Vermeer painted his Girl With A Pearl Earring there was another woman famous for her shiny pearl earrings. She was Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the world’s most celebrated female painters. When, at the height of her fame in the 1620s, she sat for her own portrait, she wore pearl drops that would become […]

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