artemisia gentileschi
Sex Scenes: Cut Off the Head of Your Rapist
Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes’ is a bloody portrait of rage against an unjust system.
The 17th Century Painter and Rape Victim Who Specialized in Revenge Fantasy
Artemisia Gentileschi was raped when she was 19. In her career as one of Italy's greatest painters, she resurrected and exorcized that trauma again and again.
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