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Judith as Therapist: Gentileschi's Active Heroine


© Jessica Cresseveur
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May 3, 2005


Although we have no concrete way of knowing what was occurring in the mind of the artist at this time, this representation of a woman calmly and determinedly carrying out the act of violence on a man could have been Gentileschi's way of coping with the trauma of rape. In an age long before rape crisis centres, before women were assured that they were not to blame; this may have been her best outlet of maintaining her sanity.

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Notes

(1) Whitney Chadwick, "The Other Renaissance." Women, Art, and Society 3rd ed. (London, 2002): 87-113.

(2) Ibid., 105.

 

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