The most famous woman painter of the 17th century, Artemisia Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. Gentileschi painted this impressive full-scale depiction of Bathsheba at her bath circa 1637 at the height of her maturity. The painting exemplifies the genre for which Artemisia is best known today, history paintings featuring female protagonists.

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#Earthquake M4.7 strikes 1,479 km E of #Bathsheba (#Barbados) 11 min ago. More info: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1222504

Works in progress are so sexy to me. It’s the audacity of cloth to leap from 2 dimensions to 3 with syncopated with flutterings of my heart coupled with the courageous vulnerability to be splayed across a table or on a mannequin with all our aspirations literally on pins and needles trusting that with shears in my hand and razors in my teeth, we are safe: I wield them for our greater good. It’s what emma effas do.
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Anyone for a Brussel Sprout
We’d like to invite you to Come to the Table today, Christmas Day!  No, we don’t have an inexhaustible supply of Brussel Sprouts, nor pigs in blankets, so why such a question? Because the Church today is often said to be in a managed decline. How we might arrest such a fall in membership, b
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