Adoration of the Magi

It has become commonplace to begin any study on Artemisia by lamenting the fact that the artist was unjustly neglected in her lifetime and forgotten after her death, until her reputation was revived, nearly three centuries later, by an ambivalent Roberto Longhi in 1916. While it is, to be sure, due to the efforts of Longhi—and, more importantly, his feminist successors—that Artemisia...