In Caravaggio, Galileo and Monteverdi’s baroque Italy, painter Artemesia Gentileschi (1593-1653) is told with music through great contemporary composers of her time. /

This genius, who was herself a singer and a lutist wooed by the greatest European figures, was an art and political icon of her time who succeeded in being independent from a violent patriarchal society in which a woman artist could not exist without a man. To the sound of the theorbo, let us listen to Artemisia’s secrets  with the music of the Caccini Sisters, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Campana, Lucrezia Vizana…