
Jakob Böhme – Aurora (cropped) – 1682 – via Getty Open Contact
Women in Art: Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
She painted many pictures of strong and suffering women from myth and the Bible – victims, suicides, warriors.

Keith Haring – “The Life of Christ”
triptych that serves as an altarpiece in the Interfaith AIDS Chapel at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, which serves as a memorial for those killed by AIDS and a place of refuge for those currently suffering from the disease. Keith Haring’s last piece before his own death from AIDS.
ByAlméry Lobel-Riche
Illustrations forCharles Baudelaire’s
Les Fleurs du Mal(c.1923)