"Lucretia," Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1650.

CW: Sexual assault, torture, suicide.

Gentileschi (1593 - sometime after January 1654) is a deservedly famous female artist who is noted for ability to depict the female body with great naturalism, her skill with color, and her notoriety for being a victim of sexual assualt and being tortured at the trial.

Trained by her father, she was doing professional work at 15. She was assaulted at 18, and eventually the perp was found guilty, but suffered little real penalty. She was tortured (a custom at the time) by strings around her fingers, and reportedly turned to the man and said, "These are the rings you gave me."

The fact that she experienced and survived sexual violence is seen as an influence on her work; a bloody painting of Judith slaying Holofernes is commonly held up as an example of her expressing her anger through art.

Lucretia, painted here (and in several other paintings) was a Roman noblewoman who was assaulted by the son of the king of Rome, and who committed suicide as a result; we see her about the commit the deed. The affair led to a revolution that installed the Roman republic.

From a private collection.

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On Saturday we performed Renaissance theatrical art in Columbus. On Sunday we went to view Renaissance painted art in Columbus!

After our performance of "Arlecchino, Emperor on the Moon", one of our Players of the Patchwork suggested we attend a talk at the Columbus Museum of Art the following day on the restoration of "Hercules and Omphale" by the amazing 17th Century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few recognized woman masters of the art for the period.

The story of the painting is also fascinating, previously unknown to the world at large until being damaged in the 2020 Beirut explosion but being restore after years of dedicated effort by the Getty Museum.

We've explored works by Gentileschi and other artists for inspiration in commedia dell'arte!

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“Susanna and the Elders” by Artemisia Gentileschi

https://ai.forfun.su/2026/03/20/susanna-and-the-elders-by-artemisia-gentileschi/

Die fast vergessene Barockmalerin: Elisabetta Sirani

https://little-arthistories.com/2026/03/die-fast-vergessene-barockmalerin-elisabetta-sirani/