Painting History

Introduction

Susanna and the Elders is a decorating by Dutch creative individual Peter Paul Rubens, performed in 1607. It is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy. Her first antiquated and marked work is so amazingly mature for a seventeen-year-old that numerous attributed it to her father. However, it is the decorating that is acknowledged, without argument, as being the first autograph decorating by Artemisia. Her signaure can be discovered in the shaded caste by Susanna's legs. (Beckett, 19)

 

Susanna and the Elders Painting Analysis

     The work displays anatomical correctness and sophisticated hue and construction. Her dad may have directed her with the conceive and execution of the painting. Her palette is obliged much to Michelangelo, a foremost leverage on her style. Artemisia depicts the biblical article of Susanna, a virtuous juvenile wife related to sex harassed by the elders of her community. Rather than displaying Susanna as coyly or flirtatious (as numerous male creative individuals had decorated the scene), (Beckett, 19) Artemisia takes the feminine viewpoint and depicts Susanna as susceptible, scared, and repulsed by their claims, while the men loom large, leering, menacing, and conspiratorial in her direction. The creative individual supplied himself with the opening to decorate a attractive nude, who is made the more stimulating by the detail that she is watched."

Although the article of Susanna has been treated in several modes, it is equitable to state that, in their most, painters have selected to depict the bathing view for the causes clarified above. Susanna is by herself bathing in her husband's flower bed when she is accosted by the Elders. Some creative individuals have selected to display Susanna as ignorant that she is discerned throughout her toilet. See for demonstration the works by Tintoretto, Henner, Pagani, Lapchenko, Guercino or Vallotton. (Beckett, 19) Others have depicted Susanna scared and embarrassed when she discovers the occurrence of the two Elders. This is especially showed in paintings by Reni, Ismailowitsch, Varotori, Van Vriendt or Rembrandt. In the last cited works, the Elders are shown congesting round the regrettable Susanna [Rubens, Reni & Van Vriendt], occasionally intimidating, even laying their hands on the object of their lust as is the case in the pantings of Alessandro Varotari and of Alessandro Allori. (Broude, 87)

This is the first decorating Rubens makes on the subject of Susanna. The elders spy on Susanna taking a bathing tub, and are taken with her charms. ...