According to art historians, artemisia gentileschi frequently painted heroic biblical women to

According to art historians, Artemisia Gentileschi frequently painted heroic biblical women to " claim her own rightful place in an art world dominated by men".

Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter who was born in 1593, she was an accomplished painter and in a time when it was not easily accepted for women to be artists, she became the member of Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.