"Meet Elisabetta Cerani, the artist who made murder look beautiful. Hi, I'm Teresa of the Unhinged History Podcast. We cover the stories that you just didn't learn about in school. Today we're tackling episode 82, titled Classic Art with a Feminist Tarantino Flare. Meet Elisabetta Cerani. This woman turned gruesome biblical scenes into Pinterest worthy pieces. Other artists are doing some boring ass portraits, not our girl, like Judith holding a severed head, or Tima Clea pushing her attacker into a well. She's born in Bologna in 1638 and she grows up in her father's workshop and takes it over when arthritis cripples his hand and she's forced to keep the family afloat. By age 27, she would have completed 200 paintings. She opened the very first art school for women, never married, and she was so fast that she could actually paint an entire thing in one sitting. Her specialty was making homicides look absolutely elegant. Critics called her style masculine because basically they didn't think that women could paint well and she ends up mysteriously passing away at 27. Maybe it was peritonitis, maybe it was poisoning, who knows? Either way, she ends up receiving a very public funeral that is only reserved for heroes. If you want to hear the full deep dive, go where those links go, listen to the entire thing, and send this to somebody else who just needs that picture of Tima Clea launching her attacker into the well on a t-shirt."