This is what I was thinking after “Columbus Day” recently, and Bowen Yang’s skit on SNL’s Weekend Update where he’s “discovering” everything.
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Learned a lot for the first time in this article from last December:
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1798 - America’s First Bank Robbery
https://www.carpentershall.org/americas-first-bank-robbery
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Loosely using inflation calculator, he won something around the equivalent of $300,282 from the court case by today’s standards. 
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“While male artists of the period often presented an idealized or sexualized view of the scene, Artemisia gives great emphasis to Susanna’s vulnerability and discomfort as she twists her body away from the lecherous men,” the statement notes.
In this respect, the painting mirrors Gentileschi’s earlier depiction of the same scene. That work, dated to 1610, “represents an art historical innovation: It is the first time in which sexual predation is depicted from the point of view of the predated,” wrote the New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead in 2020. “With this painting, and with many other works that followed, Artemisia claimed women’s resistance of sexual oppression as a legitimate subject of art.” (Gentileschi likely drew on personal experience when depicting such scenes: In 1612, an Italian court found fellow artist Agostino Tassi guilty of raping her, but he was never punished.)
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[ETA] New Kaz Rowe!
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