Gentileschi

For general reading on brilliant women artists who need more recognition, try Bridget Quinn’s Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (In That Order) - which includes a chapter on Gentileschi.

It’s a far cry from the terror and oppression Gentileschi saw when she painted this story at the age of 17.

Susanna And The Elders was Artemisia Gentileschi's first signed painting, dated 1610.

Aggressive, tense, explosive, it brings to mind works like Gentileschi’s ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes’—difficult to experience, but impossible to walk away from.