Thank You Docent etabeta, your information on painters and details of their lives is so helpful; it helps us to more fully appreciate the paintings.
The painting you posted here (post #9) follows the biblical description closely; maybe the event looked just like this!
I have a question for you; were there many famous female painters of the Renaissance?
Interested in Alba’s answer. The only one who leaps to my ignorant mind is Artemisia Gentileschi.
Very few. Most trained in the family as women were not allowed in Art Academies.
We have already encountered the nun Plautilla Nelli, in last year’s Last Supper.
Another who comes to mind is Sofonisba Anguissola who became a painter at the Court of King Philip II of Spain.
Lavinia Fontana.
Artemisia Gentileschi, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, both familiar to this page.
Elisabetta Sirani who is credited with starting the first Art Academy for women in Bologna. Her premature death at 27 is said to have been by poison given to her by a maid.
Many other women worked in obscurity in convents. Some created beautiful manuscript illuminations.
These are just few names that come to mind.