"Artemisia's Judith: Power, Violence, and the Female Hero in Baroque Painting"

A guest lecture by Sarah Ana Seligman, Smith College class of 2014 and Yale Ph.D. in Art History.    

This lecture investigates how Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi interprets the biblical narrative of Judith through multiple pictorial episodes. It analyzes the intersection between the artist's biographical experience of sexual violence and her artistic practice. It also examines how Gentileschi constructed a distinctly empowered feminine iconography that departed from the conventional representations of her contemporaries.