Saint Cecilia (Artemisia Gentileschi)

Santa Cecilia is an early painting by the baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter described as "a grand exception in the history of art - a successful woman painter in an era in which art was dominated by men." [1]

Saint Cecilia
Artist	Artemisia Gentileschi
Year	1620
Dimensions	108 cm (43 in) × 78.5 cm (30.9 in)

The canvas was painted around 1620. It shows the saint playing a lute, with an organ, a customary attribute for her, in the background. It currently now in the Galleria Spada in Rome; it has been part of the Spada collection since the seventeenth century.[2]

References

1. Locker, Jesse M. (2015). Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780300185119.
2. Christiansen, Keith; Mann, Judith Walker (2001-01-01). Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press. p. 350. ISBN 1588390063.