On a day like today – July 08, 1593, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi was born.
Artemisia Gentileschi or Artemisia Lomi (July 8, 1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.
Let’s remember her magnificent artworks:
Judith Slaying Holofernes 
Self-Portrait as a Female Martyr 
Susanna and the Elders 
Venus and Cupid