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This week’s photo has us inside what appears to be an art gallery with blue walls. Hanging from a square light fixture are red and golden ornaments. There are canvasses on the blue wall. One painting is of a floral arrangement. To the left there’s another section with red wall.
Click the artistic frog to join. (Thanks, Keith)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100 (Not counting the lengthy title 😉 )
“MY ILLUSTRIOUS LORDSHIP, I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO”
With pigment-stained hands, her revered mentor seized her breast. “You have a gift, child.”
Seventeen-year-old Artemisia clawed his cheek and writhed to escape his grasp.
His relentless laughter echoed in her ears as he thrust himself into her. Despite her anguished cries, no one rescued her.
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The gallery guide points out the drama in Artemisia Gentileschi’s vibrant paintings depicting strong women. In her second rendering of “Judith Beheading Holofernes” the red-hot intensity on the heroine’s face is palpable.
Did Artemisia pay back her assailant on canvas?
Agostino Tassi may have stolen the flower of her youth, but not her gift.
- The title is a quote from the artist. Apropo, dontcha think? 😉
*Vindication on Canvas*
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 