AAH 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Elisabetta Sirani, Rosa Bonheur
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I have more more than just technical skills . Conveys that she is a cultured, literate, creative individual. Shows her customers she can do a variety of emotions and ages and angles elisabetta sirani- bologna was the first place to have a painting school, it"s a calling card for her to have gone there. St jerome in the desert (she doesn"t paint him emaciated) Shows that no matter how much she is tortured, she will not give up her husband. Brutus"s wife (brutus was a conspirator to kill caesar) judith beheading holofernes. She is a hero in jewish literature for killing him because he planned to kill her people vs. Two italian artists working at the same time in the same city on the same subject. Caravaggio could not imagine that a woman could ever murder a man, that"s why his painting looks so unrealistic.
