Libérée, délivrée

In this episode, the children discuss the work Self-Portrait as Allegory in the painting of Artemisia Gentileschi. In her time, feminism was not won. Artemisia lived in Italy over 400 years ago, in the seventeenth century. In those days, being a woman and an artist was tense. She was not allowed to buy painting materials, not allowed to be paid for her paintings... During her entire career, she painted almost only women. When she did not paint self-portraits, Artemisia chose to take heroic, famous women, who always gave the same face, hers. It was only after her death that historians looked into her case and brought her out of oblivion.