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A reader recently sent me a link to the Tumblr analyzing this painting:
Susanna and the Elders, Restored (Left)
Susanna and the Elders, Restored with X-ray (Right)
Kathleen Gilje, 1998
For those who don’t know about this painting, the artist was the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Gentileschi was a female painter in a time when it was very largely unheard of for a woman to be an artist. She managed to get the opportunity for training and eventual employment because her father, Orazio, was already a well established master painter who was very adamant that she get artistic training. He apparently saw a high degree of skill in some artwork she did as a hobby in childhood. He was very supportive of her and encouraged her to resist the “traditional attitude and psychological submission to brainwashing and the jealousy of her obvious talents.”
Gentileschi became extremely well known in her time for painting female figures from the Bible and their suffering.
Just heard from one of you with some extra information about this:
“I was reading through the link round up and excited to see the link to a work by Artemisia Gentileschi and her painting of Susanna and the Elders. I wanted to note that the x-ray being compared alongside the painting is actually a contemporary work of art by a living artist. Kathleen Gilje, the artist, drew on the Baroque tradition of underpainting to imagine an alternative interpretation of the work. She created the more violent underpainting and then meticulous painted over it with Gentileschi’s original composition. Here is a link to her website:
http://kathleengilje.com/artwork/321721_Susanna_and_the_Elders_Restored_X_Ray.html
And here is a video Gilje made about the work:
As the original Tumblr essay notes, Gentileschi’s actual composition is still a radical departure from that of fellow (male) artists painting the same scene. However, I would not want Gentileschi’s important contribution to be confused with the work of a contemporary artist.”
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Alternative Names For The British: “During the Hundred Years’ War, the French took to calling the English les goddams because of their frequent use of expletives.”
It’s the perfect fake brochure for Dad Land you never knew you needed. “Explore the five fatherly realms!”
This New Yorker article about Tyrone Hayes’ work and persecution is fascinating:
Hayes continued studying atrazine on his own, and soon he became convinced that Syngenta representatives were following him to conferences around the world. He worried that the company was orchestrating a campaign to destroy his reputation. He complained that whenever he gave public talks there was a stranger in the back of the room, taking notes. On a trip to Washington, D.C., in 2003, he stayed at a different hotel each night. He was still in touch with a few Syngenta scientists and, after noticing that they knew many details about his work and his schedule, he suspected that they were reading his e-mails. To confuse them, he asked a student to write misleading e-mails from his office computer while he was travelling. He sent backup copies of his data and notes to his parents in sealed boxes. In an e-mail to one Syngenta scientist, he wrote that he had “risked my reputation, my name . . . some say even my life, for what I thought (and now know) is right.” A few scientists had previously done experiments that anticipated Hayes’s work, but no one had observed such extreme effects. In another e-mail to Syngenta, he acknowledged that it might appear that he was suffering from a “Napoleon complex” or “delusions of grandeur.”
For years, despite his achievements, Hayes had felt like an interloper. In academic settings, it seemed to him that his colleagues were operating according to a frivolous code of manners: they spoke so formally, fashioning themselves as detached authorities, and rarely admitted what they didn’t know.
“A San Francisco deputy public defender was handcuffed and arrested at the Hall of Justice after she objected to city police officers questioning her client outside a courtroom, an incident that her office called outrageous and police officials defended as appropriate.”
Marissa Alexander has been released from prison at last. The fact that she had to accept a plea deal, submit to two years of monitoring, and serve any jail time at all is an absolute miscarriage of justice.
EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN HERE ARE TWENTY-FOUR VERY BEAUTIFUL HORSES WITH UNUSUAL MARKINGS, FANTASTIC JOB EVERYONE
“We all stand to gain if fathers no longer testify against sons”: Egypt’s war on atheism
Friend of the Toast Leah Reich on California’s highways is pretty good. I like California and I like driving and I like Leah, so I’m hardly an impartial observer; still, I think you’ll agree.
“Sometimes I think about the places I’ve missed on these drives, the way I’ve been north-south but not as much east-west. The day we went to Mexicali, we drove only from Costa Mesa, over and back. Had we gone straight up we might have made it to the Salton Sea. I’ve never been to Tahoe, to Yosemite, to the Sequoias, to Grass Valley or Antelope Valley, or to the ghost towns that dot the landscape. I’ve spent precious little time in Riverside County, although the night I stayed in Hemet across from an emu farm felt like a near-eternity.”
Oh my God it’s a lonely fox everybody stand back and just watch the lil guy
It feels stupid to link to Jezebel, because they’re a much bigger site than we are; sort of like if CNBC tried to remind you to watch NBC, but whatever, in case you haven’t read it yet, I think Jia’s visit to UVA after the Rolling Stone article is thoughtful and good. It’s Jia, you know? Jia.
Oh my God they tried to use KNIVES to pry them open, historians are ham-handed clods:
IN 1752 Camillo Paderni, an artist who had been put in charge of the growing pile of antiquities being dug up at Herculaneum, a seaside town near Naples, wrote to a certain Dr Mead, who then wrote to the Royal Society in London reporting that “there were found many volumes of papyrus but turned to a sort of charcoal, and so brittle, that being touched, it fell to ashes. Yet by His Majesty’s orders he made many trials to open them, but all to no purpose; excepting some scraps containing some words.”
The excavation at Herculaneum—which, like nearby Pompeii, was buried in 79AD under ash from Mount Vesuvius—had uncovered a literary time capsule. What came to be called the Villa of the Papyri contained a library of perhaps 2,000 books, the only such collection known to have been preserved from antiquity.
Actually reading these scrolls has, however, proved both tricky and destructive—until now. For a paper just published in Nature Communications, by Vito Mocella of the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, in Naples, describes a way to decipher them without unrolling them.
Lord love the Mirror:
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