Jesse Locker is professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art at Portland State University, and the author of 'Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting' (Yale).
It’s been a big month for the artist, with a new record set at auction and the National Gallery of Art acquiring an ecstatic Mary Magdalene. And her stock seems set to rise even higher
Painted in around 1625, the Penitent Mary Magdalene inspired a host of copies before disappearing. Now, it has resurfaced in a private collection
