Judith beheading holofernes

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610) Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ancient Art, Rome Italy Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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The story of Judith and Holofernes is a story found in the Bible in which Judith, a Jewish woman, cut off Holofernes' head while...

Johann Christophorus Storer (1620 - 1671) Judith and Holofernes Oil on canvas h: 137 w: 129 cm Private collection The Book of Judith is the Old Testament of the Bible. The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, with whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him information on the…

z- Judith w Head of Holofernes (English)

DAILY PAINTINGS WITH EMIL on Instagram: "When Gustav Klimt painted Judith I (second picture to the left) it shocked the world. To see the Biblical figure, the pious Jewish widow Judith, painted like she was taking pleasure in beheading Holofernes was really too much for 1901's Vienna. Still, eight years later Klimt returned to the motif and painted the lesser known Judith II. This time it feels like the orgasmic facial expression is gone and the expression is more, hmm, indifferent or…