In the context of this artwork, explain the Artist of the Interpretation.
Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593 and was the only daughter of Mannerist painter Orazio Gentileschi and Prudentia Montone Gentileschi. Orazio took notice of Artemisia's potential as a painter at an early age and helped to cultivate it. By 1610 she had successfully produced Susanna and the Elders, which is known to be her first signed painting. Shortly after her artistic debut, the painter Agostino Tassi, a colleague of Orazio who was hired to teach Artemisia linear perspective, raped the young Artemisia. A public trial was later brought forward and lasted through the summer of 1612. While under oath, and throughout torture by the Sibille, Artemisia avowed: “It’s true, it’s true, it’s true, everything that I said.” Tassi was ultimately found guilty of the crime and temporarily banished from Rome.     This history is relevant as Gentileschi's early life has come to inform the perspectives of many contemporary feminist art historians, including Mary Garrard, and particularly in the case of Judith Slaying Holofernes.
Artemisia Gentileschi Agostino Tassi Orazio Gentileschi Rome Mannerist Judith Slaying Holofernes Holofernes Mary Garrard Susanna and the Elders