Date : near 1540
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : Wirt D. Walker Fund (1956)
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European Painting
Painting (Thème biblique)
Area related
Neitherlands
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For saving the Jewish people by cutting off the head of the Assyrian general Holofernes, Judith became a model of civic virtue. Van Hemessen's nude both stresses her courage and suggests a certain ambivalence toward the seductive wiles she may have used against Holofernes. The power of women was a recurrent and ironic theme in the art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in Northern Europe.
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