{"id":208260,"date":"2025-04-27T06:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/joanne-mattera-art-blog-counting-down-the-days\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:46:30","slug":"joanne-mattera-art-blog-counting-down-the-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=208260","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Mattera Art Blog: Counting Down the Days"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes,\u00a0<\/i>1612-13, oil on canvas, 78 x 64 inches<\/p>\n

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Felice Capodanno. <\/i>That’s Italian for Happy New Year, literally Happy\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Head of the Year.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span>After today there will be 19 days until the Orange Beast leaves or is removed from office. What better way is there to express the ending of a bad year and a bad presidency than by showing <\/span>images of Judith beheading Holofernes. Of course I hope we have a peaceful and bloodless transition on both counts. However, until President Biden and Vice President Harris take charge, I’m satisfying myself vicariously with the story of Judith and Holofernes. As you know from art history, or perhaps the Bible, Judith is the Old Testament heroine who stopped King Nebuchadnezzar’s general from attacking Palestine. Slipping into Holofernes’s tent, she seduced him with her beauty, plied him with drink, and then<\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span>when he was in a drunken stupor<\/span><\/span>\u2014cut off his head with his own sword. She returned to her people with his head in a bag. Without their leader, the Assyrian forces were defeated by the Jews.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Master of Jean de Mandeville, Judith Beheading Holofernes,\u00a0<\/i>1360-70; tempera, gold
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Sandro Botticelli,\u00a0<\/i>Judith Leaving the Tent with\u00a0 Holofernes’ Head, <\/i>ca 1497-1500; oil, tempera, and gilding on panel, app. 14.3 x 7.8 inches;\u00a0Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<\/span><\/p>\n

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Giorgione, Judith,<\/i>\u00a01504, oil on panel, 57 x 26 inches; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia<\/p>\n

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Judith with the Head of Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01530, oil on linen; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City<\/p>\n

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Peter Paul Rubens,\u00a0Judith Beheading Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01609-10, pen and brown ink,\u00a0 app. 9 x 6.25 inches; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt<\/div>\n

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Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01598-1602, oil on canvas 55 x 77 inches; Palazzo Barberini, Rome<\/p>\n

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01620, oil on canvas, app 57.5 x 42.5 inches; Uffizi, Florence<\/p>\n

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Johan Liss,\u00a0Judith in the Tent of Holofernes, <\/i>ca. 1652, oil on canvas, app. 50.75 x 39 inches; National Gallery, London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Orazio Gentileschi,\u00a0Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01621-24, oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut<\/p>\n

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Cristofano Allori, Judith with the Head of Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01631, oil on canvas,\u00a0 app. 47 x 39 inches; Royal Collection, London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elisabetta Sirani,\u00a0Judith with the Head of Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a0ca 1650, oil on canvas, 92.9 x 72 inches; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois<\/p>\n

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Maker unknown, England,\u00a0Judith and Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a0mid1600s; needle lace of linen, silk, and human hair; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney Australia<\/div>\n

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Goya, Judit y Holofernes,<\/i>\u00a01819-1823, oil on canvas, app. 57 x 33 inches; the Prado, Madrid<\/p>\n

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Gustav Klimt,\u00a0Judith and the Head of Holofernes, <\/i>1901, oil on canvas, 33 x 17 inches; Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna<\/p>\n

My favorites are Artemisia Gentileschi’s strong-armed women (she painted two versions) who make a bloody mess but get nary a drop on their voluminous silk garments, and one that was new to me: Johan Liss’s broad-backed beauty who, having done the deed, looks back at us while stuffing the head into a sack. May we stuff this annus horribilis <\/i>into a metaphorical sack the same way. And may there be no looking back.<\/p>\n

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes,\u00a01612-13, oil on canvas, 78 x 64 inches Museo Capodimonte, Napoli\u00a0 Felice Capodanno. That’s Italian for Happy New Year, literally Happy\u00a0Head of the Year.\u00a0After today there will be 19 days until the Orange Beast leaves or is removed from office. 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