friolenta:Kathleen Gilje, Susanna and the Elders Restored and Susanna and the Elders Restored - X-ra
friolenta:Kathleen Gilje, Susanna and the Elders Restored and Susanna and the Elders Restored - X-ray, 1998. Oil on Canvas. “Ars est celare artem,” (Real) art is to conceal art. -Ovid (43 BCE - c.18 CE) With her experience as a conservator, Kathleen Gilje is familiar with the practice of taking X-rays of a painting in order to see any changes an artist may have made to the underpainting of a work. Using this technique Gilje simultaneously references both Gentileschi’s painting and her biography. This intertexual piece requires that the viewer know the story of Susanna as well as the story of Gentileschi’s rape and trial. Click here for a video of Gilje’s detailed explanation of the work and the references it makes. -- source link