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Artemisia Gentileschi: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting  wikidata:Q3630745 reasonator:Q3630745
Artist
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653)  wikidata:Q212657 q:ca:Artemisia Gentileschi
 
Artemisia Gentileschi
Description Italian painter and artist
Date of birth/death 8 July 1593 Edit this at Wikidata 1653 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rome Edit this at Wikidata Naples Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples
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artist QS:P170,Q212657
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Title
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre self-portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Depicted person: Artemisia Gentileschi
Depicted people Artemisia Gentileschi Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1638 and 1639
date QS:P571,+1638-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1638-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1639-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 98.6 cm (38.8 in); width: 75.2 cm (29.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,98.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,75.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 405551
Inscriptions
Signature bottom center:
A.G.F.
[A[RTEMITIA] G[ENTILESCHI] F[ECIT]] [Artemisia Gentileschi did]
References

Description of the painting on the official website of British Royal Collection, London

English: Selected work 14 from Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary (Anthony Bond, Joanna Woodall, ISBN 978-1855143579)
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