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Judith Slaying Holofernes ( Artemisia Gentileschi ) | Judith Slaying Holofernes, c 1611 – 12.
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Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi
Book of Judith | Judith Slaying Holofernes ( 1614 – 20 ) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Longhi also wrote of Judith Slaying Holofernes: " There are about fifty-seven works by Artemisia Gentileschi and 94 % ( forty-nine works ) feature women as protagonists or equal to men "( Bissell, 112 ).
Judith and Holofernes
The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.
His first wife died in 1845, and on 16 August 1846, he married Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of Judith and Holofernes.
Self-portrait as the head of Judith and Holofernes | Holofernes from the Sistine Chapel ceiling around 1510.
* 1976 – Judith Holofernes, German singer ( Wir sind Helden )
* Artemisia Gentileschi ( Judith and Holofernes )
The Judith and Holofernes, begun for the Duomo di Siena date from 1455 to 1460 but were later acquired by the Medici.
* " Judith and Holofernes " ( 1455 – 1460 ) — Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
File: BLW Judith slaying Holofernes ( 1 ). jpg | Medieval and Renaissance Galleries
The most distinguished of these is the bronze group of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, a work ( first suggested by Duke Cosimo I de Medici ) now in the Loggia dei Lanzi at Florence, his attempt to surpass Michelangelo's David and Donatello's Judith and Holofernes.
* 1995: Judith with the Head of Holofernes.
* Judith and Holofernes ( 1495 )
The Museum has various paintings by Matthias Stomer and Salomon de Bray, including The Incredulity of Saint Thomas and Judith and Holofernes, as well as still lifes by the most important artists of the Haarlem School: Pieter Claesz, Willem Claesz Heda, and Jan Davidsz de Heem.
Because of the maid by her side, this Titian painting is also considered to be Judith with the Head of Holofernes.
Judith is a retelling of the story found in the Latin Bible's Book of Judith of the beheader of the Assyrian general Holofernes.
Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes
1579-1650, also known as Master of the Candlelight ), depicting Judith and Holofernes.
He is the first one to recognize Holofernes ' head brought by Judith in the city, and also the first one to praise Hashem.
The already well established notion of Judith as an exemplum of the courage of local people against tyrannical rule from afar was given new urgency by the Assyrian nationality of Holofernes, which made him an inevitable symbol of the threatening Turks.
Both Protestants and Catholics draped themselves in the protective mantle of Judith and cast their “ heretical ” enemies as Holofernes.
The Catholic tract " A Treatise of Schisme " written in 1578 at Douai by the English scholar Gregory Martin included a paragraph in which Martin expressed confidence that " the Catholic Hope would triumph, and pious Judith would slay Holofernes ".
There, Judith is a widow who lures Holofernes into her web with wiles, when she has his head in her bag she sings and jubilates with all of Israel for three months.
My Judith is paralyzed by her deed, frozen by the thought that she might give birth to Holofernes ' son ; she knows that she has passed her boundaries, that she has, at the very least, done the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Judith and Artemisia
Artemisia Gentileschi's painting Judith Beheading HolofernesCaravaggio's painting Judith Beheading Holofernes
Artemisia painted a second version of Giuditta che decapita Oloferne ( Judith beheading Holofernes ), this one larger than the Naples version and now housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.
In these paintings Artemisia again demonstrates her ability to renew herself with the novelties of the period and handle different subjects, instead of the usual Judith, Susanna, Bathsheba, and Penitent Magdalenes, for which she was already known.
In a research paper from the catalogue of the exhibition " Orazio e Artemisia Gentileschi " which took place in Rome in 2001 ( and after in New York ), Judith W. Mann gives a feminist opinion of Artemisia:
Because Artemisia returned again and again to violent subject matter such as Judith and Holofernes, a repressed-vengeance theory has been postulated.
Artemisia, and more specifically her painting Judith Beheading Holofernes, are referred to in Wendy Wasserstein's 1988 play The Heidi Chronicles, where the main character Heidi lectures about it as part of her art history course on female painters.
The story centers around Judith Beheading Holofernes, the masterwork of Artemisia Gentileschi, who was a 17th century female Italian painter who survived a rape.
File: GENTILESCHI Judith. jpg | Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith and Gentileschi
Orazio also claimed that Tassi stole a painting of Judith from the Gentileschi household.
Judith and |
File: Judith Leyster The Proposition. jpg | The Proposition by Judith Leyster
File: Judith Leyster A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel. jpg | Judith Leyster, A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel
Mission Specialist Judith Resnik on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery | Discovery during STS-41-D
United States Navy and United States Coast Guard | Coast Guard personnel at the Point Judith Light
" Judith's Field ": an area full of ruins of destroyed buildings which according to tradition were ruined by the forces of Gudit | Queen Judith.
image: WLA taft Joan of Arc Sugar Bowl and Judith Saucer. jpg | antique
| Judith Cates of Evansville, Indiana gave birth to twin girls, Margaret Jan Marie ( Maggi ) and Carli Sue Morgan ( Carli ), on December 12, 1998, at the age of 57.
* SK | Sanskrit Keys the Wisdom Religion-1940 | Judith Tyberg
Image: Gustav_Klimt_039. jpg | Gustav Klimt: " Judith mit dem Haupt Holofernes " ( 1901 ) ( destroyed )
An imaginary portrait of Judith of Babenberg, painted by Hans Part in 1490, as part of the Genealogy of the Babenberg Ladies at Stift Klosterneuburg | Klosterneuburg Abbey, founded by her parents.
Image: Firenze. PalVecchio. Donatello. JPG | Donatello's statue Judith and Holofernes
File: Baglione Judith. jpg | Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1608, Galleria Borghese
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