Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.336.
Traditionally Allegories of painting show the main protagonist as a women, inspired by a female muse though, to reinforce Patriarchal norms, overseen by a wise old man. One of the most Allegory’s of Painting, is Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self Portrait, La Pittura, also known as Autoritratto in veste di Pittura