A torture method in which metal rings were tightened around one's fingers may have influenced an artist with this surname to paint Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl. An artist with this surname was commissioned by Antonio Sauli to paint works such as Danaë after breaking with Mannerism to become a leading Caravaggisti. Baldassare Franceschini was hired to cover up a nude an artist with this surname painted in Michelangelo's house. Anthony van Dyck persuaded an artist with this surname to work in the court of Charles I ("the first"). An artist with this surname drew on Ripa's Iconologia to create Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. A maid assists a woman in cutting off the head of a man modeled on Agostino Tassi in a painting by an artist with this surname, Judith Slaying Holofernes. For 10 points, give this surname of father and daughter artists Orazio and Artemisia. ■END■
ANSWER: Gentileschi [accept Artemesia Gentileschi;accept Orazio Gentileschi]
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