Another fabulous Friday Afternoon Challenge: Art “Happens!”

[Tansy_Gold]

42. The arc of blood

You may remember, and I've lost it in my notes, but I seem to recall from another paper or something, that Gentileschi had painted one version of the beheading, then discussed the actual angle of the parabola(?) the arterial blood would spray with someone famous -- Galileo? Leonardo? I don't remember now -- and having learned that the angle was wrong in the first version, she painted another that got it right.

I know, i know, gory details.