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Date: ca. 1530. Medium: Oil on linden. Dimensions: 35 1/4 x 24 3/8 in. (89.5 x 61.9 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911. Accession Number: 11.15. Learn more about this artwork. Connections: Hands. Educator Alice Schwarz ruminates about how one's hands give away information about a person.
- Katharina Merian
European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by...
- Reliquary With a Pieta, From The Large Series of Wittenberg Reliquaries
Reliquary With a Pieta, From The Large Series of Wittenberg...
- Standing Woman
Standing Woman - Judith with the Head of Holofernes - The...
- A Relief With Adam and Eve, From The Large Series of Wittenberg Reliquaries
A Relief With Adam and Eve, From The Large Series of...
- Katharina Merian
Old Testament heroines feature prominently in Jan Massys’s body of work, particularly as nudes. Here he portrays Judith, who saved her fellow Israelites from the forces of Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar by beheading his general Holofernes. She used her beauty to first win his trust.
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May 4, 2024 · Judith Slaying Holofernes is a biblical story often depicted on canvas. The depictions of Judith’s story vary, depending on the artist, their backstory, and the time period in which the artwork was made. Some show Judith as violent, accomplished, anxious, or seductive.
Judith of Hohenstaufen. Judith of Hohenstaufen, also known as Judith of Hohenstaufen or Judith of Swabia ( c. 1133/1134 – 7 July 1191), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was Landgravine of Thuringia from 1150 until 1172 by her marriage with the Ludovingian landgrave Louis II. She was baptized as Judith, but was commonly called Jutta or ...
Media and technique: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 120.4 x 100.3cm. Judith was a beautiful Jewish widow, who entered the tent of the Assyrian general Holofernes, decapitated him with his own sword,...
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes. David Teniers the Younger Flemish. 1650s. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 640. The taste for copper supports among collectors moved from Italy to northern Europe—notably Antwerp, where this work was likely painted—by the mid-seventeenth century.
Judith and Holofernes. Artist. Giorgio Vasari, Italian, 1511–1574. Date. c.1554. Material. Oil on panel. made in. Italy, Europe. Classification. Paintings. Current Location. On View, Gallery 236. Dimensions. 42 1/2 x 31 3/8 in. (108 x 79.7 cm) Credit Line. Friends Endowment Fund and funds given in honor of Betty Greenfield Grossman. Rights.