Holofernes
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Indeed, there is another Caravaggio painting of Judith and Holofernes that he made around 1600 and that hangs in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Rome.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2019
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
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
I walk over to my favorite painting, Judith Slaying Holofernes.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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