Artemisia’s Distraught Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Infant
HITHERTO UNKNOWN PAINTING, ‘GRIEVING MOTHER & CHILD’ BY WOMAN BAROQUE ARTIST ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI IS HIDDEN HERE WITHIN SIX SELF-PORTRAITS
Scholars are still trying to determine if she created the painting in or about 1612 as a reaction to her feeling of impotence in the face of a society where violence against women was the norm. Scholars are still trying to determine if she created the painting in or about 1612 as a reaction to her feeling of impotence in the face of a society where violence against women was the norm that had the power and had used it, to treat her with intolerance and with disrespect.
The courts had inflicted on Agostino Tassi, a contemporary painter and Artemisia’s bête noire, in 1612, a mild six- month jail sentence for raping her: the records show that, by keeping his head down, in addition to his prominent social contacts, such as Cardinal Federico Borromeo Tassi continued successfully working undisturbed, in association with the Fleming, Paul Bril.
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