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Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1495) Andrea Mantegna National Gallery of Art, Washington
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/4/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Mantegna's Judith with the Head of Holofernes has one of those details. It...hard to spot. It's the foot of Holofernes. But this foot has to be taken...classic instance of a human trace: Holofernes was here. The foot, isolated...
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JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES (1612-13) Artemisia Gentileschi Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/23/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...head on a bed. Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes shows a famous Biblical assassination. The sword-woman...lady. The other woman is her maid, Abra. Their victim is Holofernes, the Assyrian general. Judith has got into his tent and...
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The Death Of Holofernes.(Poem)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/16/2007; ; 377 words
; THE DEATH OF HOLOFERNES A hand that clutches like a giant claw, Gripping the crimson curtain...rain of blood Darkening the maps and implements of war: The tent of Holofernes like a cage Strewn with vile offal, goblets on the ground, Where...
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'Da befiel sie Furcht und Angst ...': Judith im Drama des 19. Jahrhunderts.('Judith und Holofernes': Ein Drama in funf Akten (1818))(Tragische Helden mit verletzten Seelen: Mannerbilder in den Dramen Friedrich Hebbels)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...3-89129-756-8. 'Judith und Holofernes': Ein Drama in funf Akten (1818...Jacobus's classic essay, 'Judith, Holofernes and the Phallic Woman' (in Reading...thesis by Bettina Uppenkamp, Judith und Holofernes in der italienischen Malerei des Barock...
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Le mystere de Judith et Holofernes: 1500.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; In his limpid overview of French writings on the Renaissance in 1994-95 (Renaissance Quarterly 49 [1996]: 114-23), Zachary Sayre Schiffman notes that the year's work adheres to Jacob Burckhardt's idea that the birth of the individual brought about a view of the world "being full of unique
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Judith - the heroine of Chanukah?
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 12/19/2003; ; 622 words
; ...Yiddish for Judith) plied a Greek general named Holofernes with salty cheese. To quench his thirst, Holofernes drank great quantities of wine and fell into a drunken stupor. While Holofernes slept, Yehudis took his sword and cut off his head...
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Something Old; A Collection of Ancient Novels Plumbs Antiquity and Proselytizes for Piety; Ancient Jewish Novels; An Anthology
Newspaper article from: Forward; 10/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Jewish widow, who offers her body to Holofernes, the brutal commander of Nebuchadnezzar...But, like Judith's beheading of Holofernes, the story lacks exciting detail...recognized the use of sexual symbols. When Holofernes lies drunk and impotent on his bed...
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Judith the heroine? Lies, seduction, and murder in cultural perspective.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in the camp of the enemy and to lure Holofernes into a position of weakness. A study...holding the bloody, decapitated head of Holofernes in her hand--awaits visitors in almost...Nebuchadnezzar, commanded by the general Holofernes, are dispatched to Judea to punish...
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Love's Labour's Lost.(Theater review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Greg Haiste (Costard), William Chubb (Holofernes), Kevin Trainor (Moth), Michael Meats...William Chubb's hysterical performance as Holofernes. This relatively young Holofernes was an instantly recognisable figure, a schoolteacher...
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Five textual notes on the Old English Judith.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...gehrodene. (1) (34-37) Then [Holofernes], corrupted by malice, commanded...too, the effect of her appearance on Holofernes [...]" (56). Griffith adds some...appearance. The sentence says only that Holofernes wanted to have the maiden brought to...
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Holofernes
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Holofernes in the Apocrypha, the Assyrian general of Nebuchadnezzar's forces, who was killed by Judith .
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...tale of female triumph, Judith and Holofernes. But such possibilities should not...and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes in the Pitti Palace, which could be...includes the two versions of Judith Slaying Holofernes; The Penitent Magdalen, Florence...
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Chaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...as Mephistopheles, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godonov, and Holofernes. Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin (also spelled Fyodor and Feodor...Terrible in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, and Holofernes in Valentin Serov's Judith. This latter was the role he...
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Judith, Book of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...of. This Book of the Apocrypha relates how, when Nebuchadnezzar sent his general Holofernes to punish the Jews, Judith made her way to the camp of Holofernes, captivated him by her charms, and then cut off his head. The Assyrians subsequently...
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Allori, Alessandro
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...remembered primarily for one picture, Judith with the Head of Holofernes ( c. 1615, Pitti, Florence, and other versions), which...portrayed as Judith and he has depicted his own features in Holofernes' severed head. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford possesses...
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