File:Elisabetta Sirani - Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Walters 37253.jpg
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Elisabetta Sirani: Judith with the Head of Holofernes
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes |
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religious art |
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English: According to the Book of Judith, the Jewish widow Judith saved the Israelites from the Assyrians by decapitating their general Holofernes, whose army had besieged her city. She did this after having made him drunk at a banquet. Judith is commonly depicted as being assisted by an older maidservant in placing the head in a sack. The contrast between Holofernes's crude features and the heroine's beauty underlines the moral message of the eventual triumph of virtue over evil.
The Bolognese painter Elisabetta Sirani based her style on that of Guido Reni (1575-1642), who was admired for his idealized depictions of women, as in his Penitent Magdalene (Walters 37.2631). |
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| Date | between 1638 and 1665 (Baroque) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painted surface height: 129.5 cm (50.9 in); width: 91.7 cm (36.1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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37.253 |
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| Place of creation | Bologna, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibition history | World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972. Old Mistresses: Women Artists of the Past. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1972. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 359 , pp. 478−479 OCLC: 2463997. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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