Artemisia is from the Greek goddess Artemis. **Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1656)** was the **most important female Baroque painter** — best known for her dramatic *Judith Slaying Holofernes* (c. 1620), one of the most powerful canvases of the Italian Baroque. **The first woman ever accepted into Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno** in 1616. **Survived sexual assault as a teenager** by her father's collaborator Agostino Tassi, whom she publicly testified against in a notorious 1612 trial.
Subject of Mary Garrard's *Artemisia Gentileschi* (1989).
Artemisia reduces to four — the number of Italian Baroque master.