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#10 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (1593-1653)

ITALIA! WOMEN

If we cast our minds back to Simonetta Vespucci (#5 in our series) we find a woman immortalised in art as Botticelli’s Venus (probably). And if we go forward from Vespucci’s untimely death to Isabella D’Este (#7

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