Giorgio Vasaris Judith and Holofernes: Paintings, Symbolism and Metaphors
Vasari’s Judith and Holofernes Giorgio Vasari’s painting Judith and Holofernes, from the year 1554, depicts the most dramatic scene from The Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book from the Old Testament. In the biblical story Judith— a young, beautiful, very religious, Jewish, widow from the town of Bethulia— beheads Holofernes, the general of an … Read more