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The Baroque Era and Today: Anti-antics of Artemisia Gentileschi Analyzed
There is no historic age admired more then the Renaissance. This epic period defined the meaning of art and its connection to humanism in the past and present. It was an explosion of ideas and knowledge. It was a rebirth of learning based on the rediscovery of ancient texts, and a rebirth of the European culture as a whole. When the Renaissance ended the Baroque period emerged, that conveyed different ideas. There was a sense of tension and even theatrical drama in the paintings. The period produced several new and influential artists that defined the new style and one of the most important was Artemisia Gentileschi. Artemesia was a female Italian painter that pianted in a time period where female painters were not a norm and in many case were not socially accepted. She however, did not conform and became one of the most important female artists of all-time. This was partly because of her breaking ground in......

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