Holofernes
Americannoun
noun
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Around the time she painted “Lucretia,” she rendered a riveting scene in which Judith and Abra, her maidservant, hurriedly stuff the severed head of grizzled Gen. Holofernes into a bag, anxious about discovery.
From Los Angeles Times
She holds a third hand up, palm out, in a gesture of peace, and with the fourth, she grips a poppy and a little flag bearing an image of Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Beheading Holofernes.”
From New York Times
He pointed to the example of Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes”, which was valued at 150 million euros when it came up for sale in 2019 after being discovered in a French attic.
From Reuters
Okubo appropriates such Artemisia scenarios as “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” and “Judith Slaying Holofernes,” replacing their central characters with Black women in cutouts of dresses with African-inspired patterns.
From Washington Post
In 2014, a version of the work Judith Beheading Holofernes was found under an old mattress in the loft of a house in Toulouse, France.
From BBC
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