Self-Portrait in the Studio

In the Iconologia of Cesare Ripa, painting is described as a woman “with full black hair, dishevelled, and twisted in various ways” and the “female with disordered hair” represented the “frenzy of creation”. Self-portrait of a woman artist in the studio to identify as the personification of art, inspired by the work of Artemisia Gentileschi and the history of female self-portraiture.