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Description: | According to the apocryphal story, Susannah was secretly observed bathing by two elders. For refusing their advances, Susannah was falsely charged with adultery and faced a death penalty. However, she was exonerated and her story became an example of the triumph of justice. This subject was frequently painted in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the possibility it offered in depicting the female nude. This painting by an unknown artist is a copy of a work at Burghley House attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi (1622). Susannah was originally more naked than she appears today, as further drapery was added at a later date. | Subjects: | figure; landscape; religion (Susannah and the Elders); buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Gentileschi, Artemisia (Italian painter, 1593-1652 or 1653) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8521... | Go to resource |
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