Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud : SUSANNA – Bilder einer Frau vom Mittelalter bis MeToo

With the world’s first exhibition on the biblical Susanna in art, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum is dedicating itself in winter 2022/23 to a narrative and pictorial tradition that could hardly be more topical, even against the backdrop of the MeToo movement: “SUSANNA – Images of a Woman from the Middle Ages to MeToo” impressively shows how abuse of power and sexualised violence have been negotiated in painting and graphic art for centuries. 

Image above: Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna und die Alten, 1622, 161,5 × 123 cm, Öl auf Leinwand, The Burghley House Collection, Stamford