For 10 points, name this artist of Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, who is often assumed to have used herself as a model for women like Susanna and Judith in her paintings.
A depiction of this artist sits on a cloud holding a compass in a fresco featuring a bright star representing innate artistic talent in the upper right. Due to similarities with an engraving by Jerome David, this artist's painting of a martyr holding a palm frond is considered to be a self-portrait. In 2014, the Wadsworth Atheneum acquired a self-portrait in which this artist stares at the viewer and holds a lute. A self-portrait by this artist, who painted Allegory of Inclination for the Casa Buonarroti, leaves out the inscription "imitation" and a mouth-gag, but takes its detail of a chain of a gold with a mask from a description in Cesare Ripa's (*) Iconologia. In that self-portrait, this artist leans on a stone slab for grinding pigments and is seen in profile reaching up to paint on a brown canvas. For 10 points, name this artist of Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, who is often assumed to have used herself as a model for women like Susanna and Judith in her paintings.
A depiction of this artist sits on a cloud holding a compass in a fresco featuring a bright star representing innate artistic talent in the upper right.
Artemisia Gentileschi