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    art history: We all talk about there should be more art history, but what about gastronomy history?
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: We all talk about there should be more art history, but what about gastronomy history?
                
            

            
            
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    art history: My Art History professor sent this as a promise to his students
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    art history: furiosaredemption:
teadrunktailor:

jasonrainville:

The Bather
Tried for a twist on the classic art history trope of the bather :)

Can’t even start to describe how legit this is.


This is amazing

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: furiosaredemption:
teadrunktailor:

jasonrainville:

The Bather
Tried for a twist on the classic art history trope of the bather :)

Can’t even start to describe how legit this is.


This is amazing

                
            

            
            
furiosaredemption:
teadrunktailor:

jasonrainville:

The Bather
Tried for a twist on the classic art history trope of the bather :)

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    art history: PIRITS
 bookhobbit
 why is "olde vampires in high school" the big thing and not "olde vampires
 in college"
 everyone in college is eccentric. everyone
 you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who
 clearly hasn't slept in three days supports you
 everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you're polite and
 follow class etiquette
 multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy
 learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!
 wandering around campus at 3am? that's just the lifestyle tm
 *
 no matter how old or young you look it's not really that weird, there's
 sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere
 big schools are very anonymous so nobody's gonna bother to hassle
 you
 *
 anorthernskyatdawn
 the girl in pyjamas is the vampire
 themauvesoul
 Also:
 If u put ur blood in a water bottle ppl will assume it's juice and be
 Jealous
 "Oh god I'm a monster" 20 students who r all procrastinating big
 projects say "same simultaniousely and with the exact same tone
 Everything is a joke so if u say "I subsist on the lifeblood of
 mankind" someone will go "lol what a mood*
 It would take u like 100 years to major in everything
 Seen sucking the blood of a fellow classmate and u r instantly the
 campus Cryptid and Mascoft
 Listen. If u have an ethical dilemma go find a philosophy major that
 believes in ethical subjectivism and they'll make u so angry u forget
 abt whatever the fuck was bothering u
 College is the only acceptable place to get into fistfights over
 classical literature
 *
 e
 *
 iterally all u need to do to avoid suspicion is be the guy that alway:s
 has qum and a stapler
 If u have a majestic mustache ppl will just assume ur an English
 major
 Allergic to crosses? Cool. So r certain stem majors.
 e
 *
College Vampires
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: PIRITS
 bookhobbit
 why is "olde vampires in high school" the big thing and not "olde vampires
 in college"
 everyone in college is eccentric. everyone
 you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who
 clearly hasn't slept in three days supports you
 everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you're polite and
 follow class etiquette
 multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy
 learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!
 wandering around campus at 3am? that's just the lifestyle tm
 *
 no matter how old or young you look it's not really that weird, there's
 sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere
 big schools are very anonymous so nobody's gonna bother to hassle
 you
 *
 anorthernskyatdawn
 the girl in pyjamas is the vampire
 themauvesoul
 Also:
 If u put ur blood in a water bottle ppl will assume it's juice and be
 Jealous
 "Oh god I'm a monster" 20 students who r all procrastinating big
 projects say "same simultaniousely and with the exact same tone
 Everything is a joke so if u say "I subsist on the lifeblood of
 mankind" someone will go "lol what a mood*
 It would take u like 100 years to major in everything
 Seen sucking the blood of a fellow classmate and u r instantly the
 campus Cryptid and Mascoft
 Listen. If u have an ethical dilemma go find a philosophy major that
 believes in ethical subjectivism and they'll make u so angry u forget
 abt whatever the fuck was bothering u
 College is the only acceptable place to get into fistfights over
 classical literature
 *
 e
 *
 iterally all u need to do to avoid suspicion is be the guy that alway:s
 has qum and a stapler
 If u have a majestic mustache ppl will just assume ur an English
 major
 Allergic to crosses? Cool. So r certain stem majors.
 e
 *
College Vampires
                
            

            
            
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    art history: FRIDAY, AUG 31, 2018, 6:00 PM
 In a Historic Move, Los Angeles
 Educators Vote To Strike
 BY JANE MCALEVEY
 R Share | y Tweet Reddit Ju StumbleUpon @ Email Print
 Thousands came to the #Allin4Respect rally in downtown Los Angeles in May, part of the lead-up to the strike. (Photo from
 UTLA Facebook)
berniesrevolution:
IN THESE TIMES
Today teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country (after New York), voted 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize their first strike in nearly 30 years.
Last spring’s strikes and school walkouts by educators from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Arizona and more, took place in so-called red states. This school year, the strikes have moved to blue states, with teachers in Washington state school districts already on strike and Seattle teachers approving a strike vote earlier this week. The LA educators will likely go on strike, if they can’t negotiate a settlement through mediation, in mid-to-late October.
They have been working under an expired contract for over a year, since June 30, 2017. At the top of the educators’ list of demands are reducing class size; less testing and more teaching time; basics such as new textbooks, and restoring essential support structures that students need, including school nurses and guidance counselors.
California, despite being one of the wealthiest states in the nation, ranks 43 out of 50 in funding per pupil, according to the union. Julia Lathin, an art history teacher at Hamilton High, says, “Our school has over 2,000 students and one nurse, but she was only hired to be here part time. Because of this, I let my students know that I have a cabinet in my classroom that’s always stocked with pads and tampons. I need these kids focused on their education and not worrying about if they’re going to bleed through their pants at school because there isn’t always a nurse on campus.”
Out of dozens of teachers interviewed for this article, not one placed wages at the top of their priorities list. When asked, “If management offered to meet your salary demands and nothing else, would you still plan to strike?”, all said yes. Among the top concern voiced by teachers is the need to eliminate Section 1.5 of their contract, which allows teacher-to-student ratios of 1 teacher—alone in their class without assistance—to up to 46 students. That’s right: one teacher responsible for up to 46 students.
Brandon Abraham, an English teacher with 18 years of teaching experience, says, “When I started teaching in 1999, the teacher to student ratio was 1:20. I had twenty students in my class. These days, because of all the cuts, we don’t even have school librarians anymore, we are teaching basic literacy. They keep cutting and cutting and cutting essential services that students need to learn. To do a good job—which we do—is hard enough when conditions are perfect, but when the conditions get this challenging, it’s hard to motivate and inspire students. The problem is, really good teachers are leaving the profession because the conditions have become so difficult.”
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                art history: FRIDAY, AUG 31, 2018, 6:00 PM
 In a Historic Move, Los Angeles
 Educators Vote To Strike
 BY JANE MCALEVEY
 R Share | y Tweet Reddit Ju StumbleUpon @ Email Print
 Thousands came to the #Allin4Respect rally in downtown Los Angeles in May, part of the lead-up to the strike. (Photo from
 UTLA Facebook)
berniesrevolution:
IN THESE TIMES
Today teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country (after New York), voted 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize their first strike in nearly 30 years.
Last spring’s strikes and school walkouts by educators from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Arizona and more, took place in so-called red states. This school year, the strikes have moved to blue states, with teachers in Washington state school districts already on strike and Seattle teachers approving a strike vote earlier this week. The LA educators will likely go on strike, if they can’t negotiate a settlement through mediation, in mid-to-late October.
They have been working under an expired contract for over a year, since June 30, 2017. At the top of the educators’ list of demands are reducing class size; less testing and more teaching time; basics such as new textbooks, and restoring essential support structures that students need, including school nurses and guidance counselors.
California, despite being one of the wealthiest states in the nation, ranks 43 out of 50 in funding per pupil, according to the union. Julia Lathin, an art history teacher at Hamilton High, says, “Our school has over 2,000 students and one nurse, but she was only hired to be here part time. Because of this, I let my students know that I have a cabinet in my classroom that’s always stocked with pads and tampons. I need these kids focused on their education and not worrying about if they’re going to bleed through their pants at school because there isn’t always a nurse on campus.”
Out of dozens of teachers interviewed for this article, not one placed wages at the top of their priorities list. When asked, “If management offered to meet your salary demands and nothing else, would you still plan to strike?”, all said yes. Among the top concern voiced by teachers is the need to eliminate Section 1.5 of their contract, which allows teacher-to-student ratios of 1 teacher—alone in their class without assistance—to up to 46 students. That’s right: one teacher responsible for up to 46 students.
Brandon Abraham, an English teacher with 18 years of teaching experience, says, “When I started teaching in 1999, the teacher to student ratio was 1:20. I had twenty students in my class. These days, because of all the cuts, we don’t even have school librarians anymore, we are teaching basic literacy. They keep cutting and cutting and cutting essential services that students need to learn. To do a good job—which we do—is hard enough when conditions are perfect, but when the conditions get this challenging, it’s hard to motivate and inspire students. The problem is, really good teachers are leaving the profession because the conditions have become so difficult.”
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berniesrevolution:
IN THESE TIMES
Today teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                







    art history: rgfellows:
 So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about
 something that is so fuckin awesome.
 These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea.
 The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who
 have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended
 to give the person using it the powers of what theyre depicting.
 Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:
 Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others
 That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like
 The Phantom.. American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that's
 because it is.
 The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the "modern" world
 until I933. They came into contact with WWll service men who shared
 some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they
 showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi
 loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom,
 who wasn't even particularly popular in its home of America.
 He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the
 comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for
 everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the
 Phantoms
 might in battle.
 They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle
 territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a
 long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors,
 deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the
 Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his
 enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could
 not be killed.
 Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke
 HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shiclds out
 So, you might think that you're huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi
 have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the
 Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle fo【 strength.
This is officially the best confluence of comics and real life in history
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: rgfellows:
 So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about
 something that is so fuckin awesome.
 These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea.
 The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who
 have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended
 to give the person using it the powers of what theyre depicting.
 Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:
 Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others
 That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like
 The Phantom.. American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that's
 because it is.
 The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the "modern" world
 until I933. They came into contact with WWll service men who shared
 some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they
 showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi
 loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom,
 who wasn't even particularly popular in its home of America.
 He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the
 comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for
 everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the
 Phantoms
 might in battle.
 They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle
 territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a
 long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors,
 deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the
 Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his
 enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could
 not be killed.
 Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke
 HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shiclds out
 So, you might think that you're huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi
 have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the
 Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle fo【 strength.
This is officially the best confluence of comics and real life in history
                
            

            
            
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    art history: sketchy-sketcher-tumblury:

Ok so I went thru my art history and found that every year I go thru a Crona phase in July. It came early this year though lol.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: sketchy-sketcher-tumblury:

Ok so I went thru my art history and found that every year I go thru a Crona phase in July. It came early this year though lol.
                
            

            
            
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Ok so I went thru my art history and found that every year I go thru a Crona phase in July. It came early thi...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                







    art history: Art history summed up
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    art history: rgfellows:
rgfellows:


kanyewestboro:

calanoida:

Susanna and the Elders, Restored (Left)
Susanna and the Elders, Restored with X-ray (Right)
Kathleen Gilje, 1998

wow

Oooh my gosh this is rad. This is so rad.
For those who don’t know about this painting, the artist was the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Gentileschi was a female painter in a time when it was very largely unheard of for a woman to be an artist. She managed to get the opportunity for training and eventual employment because her father, Orazio, was already a well established master painter who was very adamant that she get artistic training. He apparently saw a high degree of skill in some artwork she did as a hobby in childhood. He was very supportive of her and encouraged her to resist the “traditional attitude and psychological submission to brainwashing and the jealousy of her obvious talents.”  
Gentileschi became extremely well known in her time for painting female figures from the Bible and their suffering. For example, the one seen above depicts the story from the Book of Daniel. Susanna is bathing in her garden when two elders began to spy on her in the nude. As she finishes they stop her and tell her that they will tell everyone that they saw her have an affair with a young man (she’s married so this is an offense punishable by death) unless she has sex with them. She refuses, they tell their tale, and she is going to be put to death when the protagonist of the book (Daniel) stops them.
So that painting above? That was her first major painting. She was SEVENTEEN-YEARS-OLD. For context, here is a painting of the same story by Alessandro Allori made just four years earlier in 1606: 

Wowwwww. That does not look like a woman being threatened with a choice between death or rape. So imagine 17 year old Artemisia trying to approach painting the scene of a woman being assaulted. And she paints what is seen in the x-ray above. A woman in horrifying, grotesque anguish with what appears to be a knife poised in her clenched hand. Damn that shit is real. Who wants to guess that she was advised by, perhaps her father or others, to tone it down. Women can’t look that grotesque. Sexual assault can’t be depicted as that horrifying. And women definitely can’t be seen as having the potential to fight back. Certainly not in artwork. Women need to be soft. They need to wilt from their captors but still look pretty and be a damsel in distress. So she changed it. 
What’s interesting to note is that she eventually painted and stuck with some of her own, less traditional depictions of women. However, that is more interesting with some context.  
(Warning for reference to rape, torture, and images of paintings which show violence and blood.)
So, Gentileschi’s story continues in the very next year, 1611, when her father hires Agostino Tassi, an artist, to privately tutor her. It was in this time when Tassi raped her. He then proceeded to promise that he would marry her. He pointed out that if it got out that she had lost her virginity to a man she wasn’t going to marry then it would ruin her. Using this, he emotionally manipulated her into continuing a sexual relationship with him. However, he then proceeded to marry someone else. Horrified at this turn of events she went to her father. Orazio was having none of this shit and took Tassi to court. At that time, rape wasn’t technically an offense to warrant a trial, but the fact that he had taken her virginity (and therefore technically “damaged Orazio’s property”. ugh.) meant that the trial went along. It lasted for 7 months. During this time, to prove the truth of her words, Artemisia was given invasive gynecological examinations and was even questioned while being subjected to torture via thumb screws. It was also discovered during the trial that Tassi was planning to kill his current wife, have an affair with her sister, and steal a number of Orazio’s paintings. Tassi was found guilty and was given a prison sentence of…. ONE. YEAR……. Which he never even served because the verdict was annulled.
During this time and a bit after (1611-1612), Artemisia painted her most famous work of Judith Slaying Holofernes. This bible story involved Holofernes, an Assyrian general, leading troops to invade and destroy Bethulia, the home of Judith. Judith decides to deal with this issue by coming to him, flirting with him to get his guard down, and then plying him with food and lots of wine. When he passed out, Judith and her handmaiden took his sword and cut his head off. Issue averted. The subject was a very popular one for art at the time. Here is a version of the scene painted in 1598-99 by Carivaggio, whom was a great stylistic influence on Artemisia:

This depiction is a pretty good example of how this scene was typically depicted. Artists usually went out of their way to show Judith committing the act (or having committed it) while trying to detach her from the actual violence of it. In this way, they could avoid her losing the morality of her character and also avoid showing a woman committing such aggression. So here we see a young, rather delicate looking Judith in a pure white dress. She is daintily holding down this massive man and looks rather disgusted and upset at having to do this. Now, here is Artemisia’s:

Damn. Thats a whole different scene. Here Holofernes looks less like he’s simply surprised by the goings ons and more like a man choking on his own blood and struggling fruitlessly against his captors. The blood here is less of a bright red than in Carrivaggio’s but is somehow more sickening. It feels more real, and gushes in a much less stylized way than Carrivaggio’s. Not to mention, Judith here is far from removed from the violence. She is putting her physical weight into this act. Her hands (much stronger looking than most depictions of women’s hands in early artwork) are working hard. Her face, as well, is completely different. She doesn’t look upset, necessarily, but more determined. 
It’s also worth note that the handmaiden is now involved in the action. It’s worth note because, during her rape trial, Artemisia stated that she had cried for help during the initial rape. Specifically she had called for Tassi’s female tenant in the building, Tuzia. Tuzia not only ignored her cries for help, but she also denied the whole happening. Tuzia had been a friend of Artemisia’s and in fact was one of her only female friends. Artemisia felt extremely betrayed, but rather than turning her against her own gender, this event instilled in her the deep importance of female relationships and solidarity among women. This can be seen in some of her artwork, and I believe in the one above, as well, with the inclusion of the handmaiden in the act.
So, I just added a million words worth of information dump on a post when no one asked me, but there we go. I could talk for ages about Artemisia as a person and her depictions of women (even beyond what I wrote above. Don’t get me started on her depictions of female nudes in comparison to how male artists painted nude women at the time.) 
To sum up: Artemisia Gentileschi is rad as hell. This x-ray is also rad as hell and makes her even radder.
I love art history.


I’m reblogging this again to add something that I also think is important to know about Artemisia Gentileschi.Back in her time and through even to TODAY, there are people who argue that her artworks were greatly aided by her father…. As in he either helped her paint them or just straight up painted them himself. Hell, there are a number of works only recently (past several years or so) that have been officially attributed to Artemisia because people originally saw the signature with “Gentileschi” in it and automatically attributed it to Orazio.So, not only was Artemisia Gentileschi an amazing artist and amazing historical figure, but I don’t want it to be ignored that there are people over 400 years later who still won’t give her the credit she deserves, just because she’s a woman and obviously women can’t paint like she did. 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: rgfellows:
rgfellows:


kanyewestboro:

calanoida:

Susanna and the Elders, Restored (Left)
Susanna and the Elders, Restored with X-ray (Right)
Kathleen Gilje, 1998

wow

Oooh my gosh this is rad. This is so rad.
For those who don’t know about this painting, the artist was the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Gentileschi was a female painter in a time when it was very largely unheard of for a woman to be an artist. She managed to get the opportunity for training and eventual employment because her father, Orazio, was already a well established master painter who was very adamant that she get artistic training. He apparently saw a high degree of skill in some artwork she did as a hobby in childhood. He was very supportive of her and encouraged her to resist the “traditional attitude and psychological submission to brainwashing and the jealousy of her obvious talents.”  
Gentileschi became extremely well known in her time for painting female figures from the Bible and their suffering. For example, the one seen above depicts the story from the Book of Daniel. Susanna is bathing in her garden when two elders began to spy on her in the nude. As she finishes they stop her and tell her that they will tell everyone that they saw her have an affair with a young man (she’s married so this is an offense punishable by death) unless she has sex with them. She refuses, they tell their tale, and she is going to be put to death when the protagonist of the book (Daniel) stops them.
So that painting above? That was her first major painting. She was SEVENTEEN-YEARS-OLD. For context, here is a painting of the same story by Alessandro Allori made just four years earlier in 1606: 

Wowwwww. That does not look like a woman being threatened with a choice between death or rape. So imagine 17 year old Artemisia trying to approach painting the scene of a woman being assaulted. And she paints what is seen in the x-ray above. A woman in horrifying, grotesque anguish with what appears to be a knife poised in her clenched hand. Damn that shit is real. Who wants to guess that she was advised by, perhaps her father or others, to tone it down. Women can’t look that grotesque. Sexual assault can’t be depicted as that horrifying. And women definitely can’t be seen as having the potential to fight back. Certainly not in artwork. Women need to be soft. They need to wilt from their captors but still look pretty and be a damsel in distress. So she changed it. 
What’s interesting to note is that she eventually painted and stuck with some of her own, less traditional depictions of women. However, that is more interesting with some context.  
(Warning for reference to rape, torture, and images of paintings which show violence and blood.)
So, Gentileschi’s story continues in the very next year, 1611, when her father hires Agostino Tassi, an artist, to privately tutor her. It was in this time when Tassi raped her. He then proceeded to promise that he would marry her. He pointed out that if it got out that she had lost her virginity to a man she wasn’t going to marry then it would ruin her. Using this, he emotionally manipulated her into continuing a sexual relationship with him. However, he then proceeded to marry someone else. Horrified at this turn of events she went to her father. Orazio was having none of this shit and took Tassi to court. At that time, rape wasn’t technically an offense to warrant a trial, but the fact that he had taken her virginity (and therefore technically “damaged Orazio’s property”. ugh.) meant that the trial went along. It lasted for 7 months. During this time, to prove the truth of her words, Artemisia was given invasive gynecological examinations and was even questioned while being subjected to torture via thumb screws. It was also discovered during the trial that Tassi was planning to kill his current wife, have an affair with her sister, and steal a number of Orazio’s paintings. Tassi was found guilty and was given a prison sentence of…. ONE. YEAR……. Which he never even served because the verdict was annulled.
During this time and a bit after (1611-1612), Artemisia painted her most famous work of Judith Slaying Holofernes. This bible story involved Holofernes, an Assyrian general, leading troops to invade and destroy Bethulia, the home of Judith. Judith decides to deal with this issue by coming to him, flirting with him to get his guard down, and then plying him with food and lots of wine. When he passed out, Judith and her handmaiden took his sword and cut his head off. Issue averted. The subject was a very popular one for art at the time. Here is a version of the scene painted in 1598-99 by Carivaggio, whom was a great stylistic influence on Artemisia:

This depiction is a pretty good example of how this scene was typically depicted. Artists usually went out of their way to show Judith committing the act (or having committed it) while trying to detach her from the actual violence of it. In this way, they could avoid her losing the morality of her character and also avoid showing a woman committing such aggression. So here we see a young, rather delicate looking Judith in a pure white dress. She is daintily holding down this massive man and looks rather disgusted and upset at having to do this. Now, here is Artemisia’s:

Damn. Thats a whole different scene. Here Holofernes looks less like he’s simply surprised by the goings ons and more like a man choking on his own blood and struggling fruitlessly against his captors. The blood here is less of a bright red than in Carrivaggio’s but is somehow more sickening. It feels more real, and gushes in a much less stylized way than Carrivaggio’s. Not to mention, Judith here is far from removed from the violence. She is putting her physical weight into this act. Her hands (much stronger looking than most depictions of women’s hands in early artwork) are working hard. Her face, as well, is completely different. She doesn’t look upset, necessarily, but more determined. 
It’s also worth note that the handmaiden is now involved in the action. It’s worth note because, during her rape trial, Artemisia stated that she had cried for help during the initial rape. Specifically she had called for Tassi’s female tenant in the building, Tuzia. Tuzia not only ignored her cries for help, but she also denied the whole happening. Tuzia had been a friend of Artemisia’s and in fact was one of her only female friends. Artemisia felt extremely betrayed, but rather than turning her against her own gender, this event instilled in her the deep importance of female relationships and solidarity among women. This can be seen in some of her artwork, and I believe in the one above, as well, with the inclusion of the handmaiden in the act.
So, I just added a million words worth of information dump on a post when no one asked me, but there we go. I could talk for ages about Artemisia as a person and her depictions of women (even beyond what I wrote above. Don’t get me started on her depictions of female nudes in comparison to how male artists painted nude women at the time.) 
To sum up: Artemisia Gentileschi is rad as hell. This x-ray is also rad as hell and makes her even radder.
I love art history.


I’m reblogging this again to add something that I also think is important to know about Artemisia Gentileschi.Back in her time and through even to TODAY, there are people who argue that her artworks were greatly aided by her father…. As in he either helped her paint them or just straight up painted them himself. Hell, there are a number of works only recently (past several years or so) that have been officially attributed to Artemisia because people originally saw the signature with “Gentileschi” in it and automatically attributed it to Orazio.So, not only was Artemisia Gentileschi an amazing artist and amazing historical figure, but I don’t want it to be ignored that there are people over 400 years later who still won’t give her the credit she deserves, just because she’s a woman and obviously women can’t paint like she did. 

                
            

            
            
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    art history: Lauren Southern
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 To all the verified liberals tweeting
 me smualy saving I "iust don't
 understand art history" - here's
 Wiley himself saying the images
 are "sort of a play on the 'kill
 whitey' thing," nymag.com/arts/
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 Imagine if Trump
 chose an artist who
 depicted whites
 beheading blacks
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 Lauren Southern .
 @Lauren_Southern
 Imagine if Trump chose an artist
 who depicted whites beheading
 blacks
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<p><a href="http://cisnowflake.tumblr.com/post/170872168431/italianguy617-tron-whats-common-in-democrats" class="tumblr_blog">cisnowflake</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://italianguy617.tumblr.com/post/170863670500/tron-whats-common-in-democrats-and-muslims-an" class="tumblr_blog">italianguy617</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p><a href="http://tron.tumblr.com/post/170859115020/whats-common-in-democrats-and-muslims-an" class="tumblr_blog">tron</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>What’s common in Democrats and Muslims? An obsession with cutting of innocent people’s heads.</p></blockquote>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="641" data-orig-width="1199"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c209fd4d3f198a1b463413a82c411ab8/tumblr_inline_p44rarSiZP1s9tj3h_540.png" data-orig-height="641" data-orig-width="1199"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>It is absolutely true that if an artist had done multiple paintings depicting white people decapitating black people, and then Donald Trump chose that person paint a portrait of him, the media would be pointing to it as proof of Trump’s white supremacism.</p></blockquote>

<p>In a damn heartbeat they would.</p>
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                art history: Lauren Southern
 @Lauren_Southern
 To all the verified liberals tweeting
 me smualy saving I "iust don't
 understand art history" - here's
 Wiley himself saying the images
 are "sort of a play on the 'kill
 whitey' thing," nymag.com/arts/
 art/rules
 Lauren Southern. @LaurenSouthern
 -
 Imagine if Trump
 chose an artist who
 depicted whites
 beheading blacks
 5:39 PM 13 Feb 18

 Lauren Southern .
 @Lauren_Southern
 Imagine if Trump chose an artist
 who depicted whites beheading
 blacks
 11:23 PM 12 Feb 18
 3,244 Retweets 7,935 Likes
<p><a href="http://cisnowflake.tumblr.com/post/170872168431/italianguy617-tron-whats-common-in-democrats" class="tumblr_blog">cisnowflake</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p><a href="https://italianguy617.tumblr.com/post/170863670500/tron-whats-common-in-democrats-and-muslims-an" class="tumblr_blog">italianguy617</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p><a href="http://tron.tumblr.com/post/170859115020/whats-common-in-democrats-and-muslims-an" class="tumblr_blog">tron</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>What’s common in Democrats and Muslims? An obsession with cutting of innocent people’s heads.</p></blockquote>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="641" data-orig-width="1199"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c209fd4d3f198a1b463413a82c411ab8/tumblr_inline_p44rarSiZP1s9tj3h_540.png" data-orig-height="641" data-orig-width="1199"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>It is absolutely true that if an artist had done multiple paintings depicting white people decapitating black people, and then Donald Trump chose that person paint a portrait of him, the media would be pointing to it as proof of Trump’s white supremacism.</p></blockquote>

<p>In a damn heartbeat they would.</p>
                
            

            
            
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