The Empress’s New Clothes: Leftist Self-Worship and the Cult of Artemisia Gentileschi

Oct 19th 2020 10:45am EDT

“She was a genius,” says the Guardian. She was a “uniquely gifted artist who should be considered among the all-time greatest painters,” says the BBC. I say, no, she was not. The Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1656) was not a genius, was not uniquely gifted and should definitely not be considered a great painter. […]

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