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The top floor of a Roman palazzo, given entirely to one tall north window and the light from it. Here Artemisia Gentileschi paints the likenesses of women whom the world kept badly – portraits made by enemies, faces hacked away, likenesses painted centuries later by strangers – and the city sees the new face as it once saw the old one. The sitter's chair stands on a low dais. Unfinished canvases are turned to the wall. Payment is in hours of reading. Not everyone in the Cité thinks a corrected l...
Located in Cité des Dames.