Artemisia Gentileschi & the Bloody Canvas

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“As long as I live I will have control over my being” So wrote the bold and master Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who took control of her life and her art, breaking the norms of society both in gaining renown for her painting and in taking her rapist to court at a time when few women were able to do either. *also, the one in which Sarah has fallen down the stairs BIBLIOGRAPHY: Garrard, Mary D. Artemisia Gentileschi : The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989). Print. Marjorie Och, "Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes,’ Art Institute of Chicago, October 17, 2013-January 9, 2014," catalogue by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, The Woman’s Art Journal 35/2 (2014): 63-64. "It's True It's True It's True" preformed by Breach Theatre at the Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh 2018