|
Judith And Holofernes
Judith and Holofernes may refer to: * Judith beheading Holofernes, a biblical episode from the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, often shown in art ''Judith and Holofernes'' or ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' may also refer to: Artworks 15th century * ''Judith and Holofernes'' (Donatello), a sculpture of c. 1460 by Donatello * ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' (Mantegna, Montreal), a painting of c. 1495 by Andrea Mantegna in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts * ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' (Mantegna, Dublin), a painting of c. 1495 by Andrea Mantegna in the National Gallery of Ireland * ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' (Mantegna, Washington), a painting of c. 1495/1500 by Andrea Mantegna or a follower in the National Gallery of Art 16th century * ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' (Titian), a painting of c. 1570 by Titian * ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' (Veronese), a painting of c. 1575–1580 by Paolo Veronese * ''Judith and Holoferne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Beheading Holofernes
The account of the beheading of Holofernes by Judith is given in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, and is the subject of many paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance art, Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the story, Judith, a beautiful widow, is able to enter the tent of Holofernes because of his desire for her. Holofernes was an Assyrian general who was about to destroy Judith's home, the city of Bethulia. Overcome with drink, he passes out and is Decapitation, decapitated by Judith; his head is taken away in a basket (often depicted as being carried by an elderly female servant). Artists have mainly chosen one of two possible scenes (with or without the servant): the decapitation, with Holofernes supine on the bed, or the heroine holding or carrying the head, often assisted by her maid. In European art, Judith is very often accompanied by her maid at her shoulder, which helps to distinguish her from Salome, who also carries John the Baptist, her victim's head on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Florence)
''Judith Slaying Holofernes'' c. 1620, now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is the renowned painting by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi depicting the assassination of Holofernes from the apocryphal Book of Judith. When compared to her earlier interpretation from Naples c. 1612, there are subtle but marked improvements to the composition and detailed elements of the work. These differences display the skill of a cultivated Baroque painter, with the adept use of chiaroscuro and realism to express the violent tension between Judith, Abra, and the dying Holofernes. Description Gentileschi centers her work on the labor of the killing, which forces the gaze to start amid the tangle of blood, limbs, and metal. Her ability to display brutal realism is shown particularly in the details, such as the arc of carotid blood that spatters across the frame. This scene displays the use of chiaroscuro, or the drastic contrast between light and dark, both literally and figuratively. Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Holofernes
Judith Holfelder-Roy (''née'' Holfelder-von der Tann; born 12 November 1976), known by her stage name Judith Holofernes (), is a German singer, guitarist, songwriter and author. She was the lead singer of Wir sind Helden, the German pop rock band that released the song "Guten Tag (song), Guten Tag" in 2002. The band received critical acclaim owing in part to Holofernes' lyrics, which are characterized by their playful use of words and use of social criticism. After recording four albums that were chart successes in the German-speaking world, Wir sind Helden went on indefinite hiatus in 2012. Since then, Holofernes has recorded two solo albums (''Ein leichtes Schwert'', 2014; ''Ich bin das Chaos'', 2017) and has published a book of poems (''Du bellst vor dem falschen Baum'', 2015) and a memoir (''Die Träume anderer Leute'', 2022). Early life Holofernes was born in Berlin and moved at the age of six with her mother to the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the south of Germany. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith And Holofernes (1959 Film)
''Head of a Tyrant'' or ''Judith and Holofernes'' () is a 1959 historical film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Massimo Girotti, Isabelle Corey and Renato Baldini.Parish p.53 An Italian-French co-production, it is part of the boom in Sword-and-sandal productions during the late 1950s. The film is based on the story of Judith Beheading Holofernes. A 1929 film ''Judith and Holofernes'' was also inspired by the tale. Cast * Massimo Girotti as Holophernes * Isabelle Corey as Judith * Renato Baldini as Arbar * Yvette Masson as Rispa * Gianni Rizzo as Ozia * Camillo Pilotto as Belial * Lucia Banti as Servant Girl * Ricardo Valle as Isaac * Leonardo Botta as Gabriele * Franco Balducci as Galaad * Luigi Tosi as Irasa * Gabriele Antonini as Brother * Daniela Rocca as Naomi * Enzo Doria as Daniel See also * '' Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) References Bibliography * Parish, James Robert. ''Film Directors Guide:Western Europe''. Scarecrow Press, 1976. Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith And Holofernes (1929 Film)
''Judith and Holofernes'' () is a 1929 Italian silent film, silent historical film directed by Baldassarre Negroni and starring Bartolomeo Pagano, Jia Ruskaja and Franz Sala.Molitnerno p.220 It was the final film of Pagano, who had been famous during the silent era for his portrayals of Maciste. The film is based on the story of Judith beheading Holofernes. A 1959 film, ''Judith and Holofernes (1959 film), Judith and Holofernes'', was also inspired by the tale. Cast * Bartolomeo Pagano * Jia Ruskaja * Franz Sala * Carlo Tedeschi * Giuseppe Brignone * Augusto Bandini * Felice Minotti * Lore Lay * Giorgio Curti * Anna Mari * Andrea Bani * Nino Altieri See also * ''Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1929 films 1920s historical drama films Italian silent feature films Films about Judith 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Baldassarre Negron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Of Bethulia
''Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith. The film was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released. It is considered the earliest American made epic film. Shortly after its completion and a disagreement Griffith had with Biograph executives on making more future feature-length films, Griffith left Biograph, and took the entire stock company with him. Biograph delayed the picture's release until 1914, after Griffith's departure, so that it would not have to pay him in a profit-sharing agreement they had. Synopsis The film is based on the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrians, a widow named Judith (Blanche Sweet) has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith I
''Judith and the Head of Holofernes'' (also known as ''Judith I'', German: ''Judith und Holofernes'') is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, painted in 1901. It depicts the biblical figure Judith holding the head of Holofernes after beheading him. The beheading and its aftermath have been commonly portrayed in art since the Renaissance, and Klimt himself painted a second work depicting the subject in 1909. Context and influences Judith was the biblical heroine who seduced and then decapitated General Holofernes in order to save her home city of Bethulia from destruction by the Assyrian army. When Klimt addressed the biblical theme of Judith, the historical course of art had already codified its main interpretation and preferred representation. Many paintings exist describing the episode in a heroic manner, especially expressing Judith's courage and virtuous nature. Judith appears as God's instrument of salvation, but the violence of her action cannot be denied and is dramatical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith And Holofernes (Goya)
''Judith and Holofernes'' is the name given to one of the 14 ''Black Paintings'' painted by Francisco de Goya between 1819 and 1823. By this time, Goya was in his mid 70s and deeply disillusioned. In mental and physical despair, he painted the private works on the interior walls of his home—applying oils directly on plaster—known as the Quinta del Sordo ("The House of the Deaf Man"), which he had purchased in 1819. ''Judith and Holofernes'' was likely painted on the first floor, beside ''Saturn Devouring His Son''. The picture is a personal reinterpretation of the narrative of the Book of Judith, in which the protagonist saves Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Israel from the assault of the general Holofernes by seducing and beheading him. Judith is the only historical figure who can be identified with certainty among the ''Black Paintings''. ''Judith and Holofernes'' palette consists of blacks, ochres and red applied with very free, broad and energetic brushstrokes. The l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith And Holofernes (Preti)
''Judith and Holofernes'' is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Mattia Preti, datable to around 1653–1656. It is held at the Museo di Capodimonte, in Naples.Nicola Spinosa, ''Mattia Preti. Tra Roma, Napoli e Malta'', Naples, Electa, 1999 (Italian), ISBN 978-8851001292 History The canvas is mentioned for the first time in the last will of the Calabrian lawyer Domenico di Somma, dated of 1659, where another work by Preti, the ''St John the Baptist'' is also named. The legacy of di Somma passed to his collaborator and friend, also from Calabria, Antonino Laratta. Both of them were Preti lawyers during the controversy that the painter had a few years earlier against the priests of the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, for a diatribe relating to fees due for the cycles of frescoes that Preti executed on the life of Saint Andrew. On the death of Laratta, in 1685, the painting, together with that of St. John the Baptist, passed to the Church of San Domenico Soriano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith And Holofernes (Boulogne)
''Judith and Holofernes'' is a painting by the French artist Valentin de Boulogne, from 1626, as a close copy of a similar painting by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting is an oil on canvas and measures 137 x 178 cm. It is in the collection of MUŻA in Valletta, Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two .... References External links * http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_212229/Jean-de-Boulogne-Valentin/Judith-and-Holofernes 1626 paintings Paintings by Valentin de Boulogne Paintings in Malta Paintings of Judith Paintings about death Christian art about death {{1620s-painting-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Naples)
''Judith Slaying Holofernes'' is a painting by the Italian early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, completed in 1612–13 and now at the Museo Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. The picture is considered one of her iconic works. The canvas shows Judith beheading Holofernes. The subject takes an episode from the apocryphal Book of Judith in the Old Testament, which recounts the assassination of the Assyrian general Holofernes by the Israelite heroine Judith. The painting shows the moment when Judith, helped by her maidservant Abra, beheads the general after he has fallen asleep in a drunken stupor. She painted a second version (now in the Uffizi, Florence) somewhere between 1613 and 1621. Early feminist critics interpreted the painting as a form of visual revenge following Gentileschi's rape by Agostino Tassi in 1611; similarly many other art historians see the painting in the context of her achievement in portraying strong women. Creation Artemisia Gentileschi was around twen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith And Holofernes (Donatello)
The account of the beheading of Holofernes by Judith is given in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, and is the subject of many paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the story, Judith, a beautiful widow, is able to enter the tent of Holofernes because of his desire for her. Holofernes was an Assyrian general who was about to destroy Judith's home, the city of Bethulia. Overcome with drink, he passes out and is decapitated by Judith; his head is taken away in a basket (often depicted as being carried by an elderly female servant). Artists have mainly chosen one of two possible scenes (with or without the servant): the decapitation, with Holofernes supine on the bed, or the heroine holding or carrying the head, often assisted by her maid. In European art, Judith is very often accompanied by her maid at her shoulder, which helps to distinguish her from Salome, who also carries her victim's head on a silver charger (plate). However, a Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
