Focus on this artwork and explain the History.
The work was painted in 1622, two years after Gentileschi returned to Rome after having started her career as an independent artist in Florence. The stylistic differences from her 1610 version of the same subject had led this 1622 work to initially be attributed to Caravaggio.The painting was loaned to the Gentileschi exhibition that was held at the National Gallery in London in 2020, but had been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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