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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is the only securely attributed work in marble completed by Properzia de' Rossi, the only woman artist in the Italian Renaissance mentioned in the first edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
They also state that the wife attempted to seduce Joseph during a religious festival at the Nile River and that everyone knew Joseph's innocence, including the wife's eleven month old child and Asenath, who was the first to inform Potiphar. But Potiphar imprisoned Joseph to save his wife from public humiliation. Even after Joseph's freedom, the ...
Gian Paolo Lomazzo wrote a life of de' Rossi, adding details to the tale around the Joseph and Potiphar's wife piece and comparing her to tragic women of antiquity such as Sappho. [8] Felicia Hemans included the poem Properzia Rossi . in her collection, Records of Women (1828) where she focused on the artist's unrequited love through an ...
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife may refer to a number of works based on the story told in Book of Genesis chapter 39: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (Properzia de' Rossi), a 1520s marble sculpture by Properzia de' Rossi; Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (Finoglia) - 1620-1623 (or possibly c.1640) painting by Italian artist Paolo Finoglia
Potiphar is also present when Joseph reunites with his brothers. In Joseph and his Brothers, Thomas Mann suggests that Potiphar's wife is sexually frustrated partly because Potiphar is a eunuch. In Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Potiphar's wife is referred to in Chapter 46 of the Ardua Hall Holograph ...
The story of Astydamia follows a common folkloric structure, known primarily from the Biblical story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, in which a wicked seductress fails to allure her object of desire and subsequently accuses him of sexual misconduct, whether attempt or assault; similar stories in Greek myth include Phaedra with Hippolytus, Cleoboea with Antheus, and Stheneboea with Bellerophon.
Whilst captive in Egypt, Joseph becomes a trusted servant of Potiphar, but later experiences humiliation and imprisonment after Potiphar's wife falsely claims that he raped her. Years later, whilst Joseph is in prison, Pharaoh becomes pestered by nightmares which none of his advisors can interpret.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is a painting by Orazio Gentileschi, painted around 1630-1632 during his time in Charles I's court. Along with The Finding of Moses (National Gallery) and an Apollo and the Muses (Private Collection), it was created for Queen Henrietta to hang in the Queen's House in Greenwich.