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“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found...that, having done a drawing of...

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Charles van Beveren, 1846

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610) Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ancient Art, Rome Italy Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

Johann Christophorus Storer (1620 - 1671) Judith and Holofernes Oil on canvas h: 137 w: 129 cm Private collection The Book of Judith is the Old Testament of the Bible. The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, with whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him information on the…

The most famous painting by Florentine artist Cristofano Allori, carried out between 1610 and 1612, became an instant success and was widely copied, due in part to the popularity of the legend of the biblical heroine Judith which the artist interpreted autobiographically; the decapitated head of Holofernes is a self-portrait while his lover Mazzafirra is portrayed in the beautiful face of the young woman

Judith was a beautiful Jewish widow, who entered the tent of the Assyrian general Holofernes, decapitated him with his own sword, and brought his head back to her people. According to his biographer Baldinucci, Allori painted this work in part as an autobiographical account of his love affair with Maria de Giovanni Mazzafirri, which ended badly. The figure of Judith, Baldinucci claimed, resembles ‘La Mazzafirra’, the servant in the background her mother, and the severed head of Holofernes is…

Simon Vouet Self-portrait ca. 1626-27 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Simon Vouet Portrait of Prince Marcantonio Doria 1621 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre Simon Vouet Fortune Teller 1617 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome Simon Vouet Fortune Teller ca. 1620 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada "Simon Vouet was born in 1590 in Paris, the son of the minor painter Laurent Vouet. Evidently precocious, at age fourteen he was sent to England to execute a portrait of a "Lady of…

Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson CollectionGiulio Cesare ProcacciniBologna 1574 - 1625 MilanJudith and Holofernes