Holofernes
Americannoun
noun
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In Massachusetts, Erica Stockwell-Alpert and Alex deVillers posed as Caravaggio’s "Judith Beheading Holofernes" using a kitchen knife and their spare bedsheets.
From Fox News • Apr. 20, 2020
The pediment also features statues of St. George, St. Theodore, the Evangelists, the Prophets and Judith with the head of Holofernes, the Assyrian general who threatened to destroy her home of the city of Bethulia.
From Washington Times • Jul. 17, 2018
Are we now to disparage the time-honored and revered images of Perseus and the head of Medusa; Judith and the head of Holofernes and even Salome?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2017
Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the incendiary artist Caravaggio, whose terrifying painting of Judith and Holofernes influenced hers.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2016
At the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, I stood before Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes and did not once think about chickens.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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