This Rembrandt painting is twisted.  

So here we have Susanna and she’s in a bath house, about to descend the steps to a nice hot bath.  All of a sudden, two unnamed “Elders” approach and grab her.  One tries to literally disrobe her, and a third man, probably older than time itself, creeps out of the shadows to watch.

Susanna is based off of Shoshana from the Bible.  The story goes that a couple of creepy peeping toms (as if there are any other kind) watch the married Shoshana as she sends off her two attendants and bathes alone in her garden.  When she finishes and tries to return to her house, the creepazoids intercept her and say that they’ll claim that she was meeting a young man in secret unless she sleeps with them.  She obviously refuses and then, of course, is arrested.  No one ever believes the victim :/.  Fortunately, a guy named Daniel bursts onto the scene and suggests that the old creeps be cross-examined separately, just to be sure.  There were discrepancies about one minor detail, and that freed our poor Shoshanaand the Elders were killed!  Honestly I wish it turned out that way more often--not the death part but the freeing the innocent and punishing the villains part.

Question remains, why did Rembrandt paint the horrible part and not the good part?  I can’t answer that without going into a feminist rant, so you can infer from that what you will.