Susanna and the Elders  1556

painting by Tintoretto (Museum: Kunsthistorisches Museum) [br] Every day the wife of the wealthy Joakim, Susanna, went into the orchard totake a bath. Before long she inflamed the secret lust of two of her husband’s guests: “[…] they perverted their own mind and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.” (Sus. 1:9.) One day ...