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The life of Artemisia Gentileschi is made for Netflix, but it’s the art that really excites

‘I’ll show you what a woman can do’: Laura Freeman goes in search of this feminist heroine, survivor of abuse, canny player of the art market and bravura painter

Pleasure triumphant: ‘Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy’, c.1620–25, by Artemisia Gentileschi — and possibly a self-portrait 
issue 11 April 2020
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