6/20/2023 0 Comments Artemisia letizia treves![]() ![]() This incident, captured in court records which document how Artemisia voluntarily underwent torture in order to prove that her account was truthful, has come to be a dominant prism through which she is viewed by the wider world. At seventeen, Artemisia was a victim of a rape perpetrated by the artist Agostino Tassi. Courtesy Saint Louis Art MuseumĪrtemisia would return to the story of Susanna twice again in her later career (the exhibition shows us how she continued to reimagine the biblical scene, in 16), but it is the 1610 painting – in which Susanna is visibly distressed and potentially angry, rather than impassive or appealing to the heavens for intervention – that has become inextricably linked to the artist’s biography. Artemisia Gentileschi, Danaë, about 1612, oil on copper, 41.3 × 52.7 cm. ![]()
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