Susanna and the Elders
- Artist
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Date
- 1610
- Style
- Baroque
- Genre
- Religious painting
- Location
- Schloss Weissenstein
"Susanna and the Elders" (1610) by Artemisia Gentileschi is her earliest-known signed and dated oil painting, representing a dramatic Baroque religious scene. It depicts a young Susanna, visibly frightened, being approached by two men while she bathes, capturing intense emotion and tension characteristic of religious paintings of the period. The artwork is rendered on canvas and exemplifies Artemisia's skill in conveying psychological depth. This scene, drawn from the deuterocanonical Book of Susanna in the Additions to Daniel, was a popular subject among Baroque artists.
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