Happy Birthday Artemisia Gentileschi!!! Google today celebrates the 427^th birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi, the great Italian Baroque painter, who is now considered one of the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists working in the dramatic style of Caravaggio. Google dedicates a very captivating artistic doodle on her 427^th birthday.

Artemisia Gentileschi is best known for her depictions of powerful heroines, many of which seem to reflect the prejudice and hardship she faced in her own life. She was born in Rome in present-day Italy on July 8, 1593. During that time when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, she became the first women by becoming a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and had an international clientele.