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Photograph of St. Peter's Basillica in Rome taken in the 1910s.

Gentileschi was one of the few women artist from her day. She was a part of the Counter-Reformation movement, during which there was a proliferation of religious art from the Catholic Church in an effort to counter the Protestant movemtent.

Allegory of Spring is a painting that makes very clear the role of patrons during the Renaissance, especially in art. The oranges that line the top of the painting are there to represent the patrons, the imfamous Medici family. In this great work of…

Muscular anatomy of idealized human form. The pose is similar to poses from Renaissance paintings, showing the hazy line between art and scientific drawings.