River Landscape Annibale Carracci (Italian; 1560–1609) ca. 1590 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Roberto Ferri

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant, c. 1623-1625

Selene and Endymion, 1770, Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728-1781)

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600–1670) • Plate of Figs • 1661-62 • Watercolor

Saturn Wresting with a Snake, 1770 by Giuseppe Cades (1750-1799)

This is an unusual painting for Gentileschi. The majority of her work depicts women in dominant, powerful roles. This is an unusual painting for Gentileschi, as it depicts the subject, Venus, in a vulnerable situation. Art historians believe that it was possibly a reaction to the tastes of art patrons. It's very likely that paintings depicting women in role of control over men was not popular in that era. Gentileschi was raped by her art tutor as a teen and we can see by most of her paintings that she worked through that event in her work as a painter.

~Pagan Sphinx

Artemisia Gentileschi • Venus and Cupid • 1626 • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Oily tempera on canvas by Roberto Ferri, 2020

Annibale Carracci

(b. 1560 - d. 1609)

A 16th century italian painter centered in Bologna, the capital of Emilia-Romagna. Annibale, his cousin, and his brother, but mostly Annibale founded a super popular form of the baroque style.

"The Choice of Hercules"

Christ and the Samaritan Woman

The stoning of St. Stephen

Artemisia Gentileschi

Saint Cecilia (1620)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Medusa

1597

An interior with two women and three children

By Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Rape of the Sabine Women, 1630-1631. Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596-1669). Capitoline Museums, Rome.

Supper at Emmaus Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian; 1571–1610) 1606 Oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.… And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? (Luke 24: 12–20, 28–32)

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600–1670) • Chinese dish with artichokes, rose and strawberries (c. 1655–62) • Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Flowers and metal vase by Andrea Belvedere (1652-1732)