Holofernes

According to The Humanistic Tradition Vol. 2, “Baroque is associated with such features as ornaments, spatial grandeur, and theatrical flamboyance” (p. 47). However, the manner that I would define Baroque would be that Baroque involves dark lifelike paintings; scrupulous and carefully crafted sculptures; meticulous, spatial, and secular architecture; attentive and diligent performances. The manner that the Baroque movement reflected on social realities involved delivering a new perspective on…

In Judith and the Maidservant with the head of Holofernes we see many of these characteristics, including a spiritual element as it depicts a story from the Old Testament. The painter Artemisia Gentileschi, used dramatic lighting to cast a shadow on Judith’s face to create a feeling of danger, urgency and suspense, a technique called chiaroscuro. It is even more intensified given the context of the painting as Judith and Abra prepare to leave Holofernes’ tent after killing him. Emotion is also…

In my thesis essay I will be discussing, how the baroque style of was considered different that of the Renaissance period I will also be doing my essay a little different, instead of picking one element, I will use all three and compare and contrast all also explaining how the music and art was different. The baroque of style music was very different than that of known as the renaissance period. The main difference that separates baroque style music from the Renaissance era was that music was…

would not have had access to (Simons). This included painting scenes such as herself as the allegory of painting, Pictura, and also popular bible scenes, such as the story of Judith. Painted around 1625, Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes depicts a scene from the Old Testament of the Bible,…

reasons of their “Call on Adventures”. Both of them were born in the time when some other empires wanted to overrun their homeland. In 2 B.C., the city of Bethulia, where Judith was born and lived, was assailed by Assyrian which was under control of Holofernes. Her village was blocked and there was no way they could elude them. All of the people, both young and old, or men and women were all in great desperation. The bellwether of the village claimed that they were going to surrender in five…

Death, an ominous and dark subject, is very frequent in medieval literature. In the passages read so far this semester, each have had some mention of death literal and figurative, which is a dismal subject, but still brings about celebration. What an author emphasizes and how he delivers the message of death in his work shows what he celebrates in his work. Different writers focus on different aspects of death to convey and reveal to the reader what he celebrates in death. Some praise the…

Pieces Greek: Lacoon and his sons, Agesander and Athenodorus and Polydorus of Rhod es, sculpture, 150 B.C.E -first century C.E. Discobolus, Myron, sculpture, 460- 450 B.C. Rome: Column of Trajan, Apollodorus of Damascus, Column sculpture, 106 - 113. Emperor Constantine I , unknown sculptor, Marbl e statue, 325 - 326. Early Christian: Jonah m:d the Whale, sculptor unknown, sarcophagus, late third century Jesus the Good Shepard, painter unknown, mural, fourth century Gothic: Annunciation…

created. Artemisia created “Susanna and the Elders”, “Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes”, “Self- Portrait as the Allegory of Painting”, and plenty more artworks. My favorite artwork that Artemisia completed is called “Judith Slaying Holofernes.” The artwork that Artemisia completed illustrates the biblical story of Judith, a Jewish heroine who beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes to save her…

religious views. By using the dark and light colors it created a more dramatic and realistic style of art in Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Mathew and The Conversation of St. Paul, and again in Gentileschi’s Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes. In Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Mathew painted in 1599-1600 the most dramatic detail of this painting is “the light that streams in from an unseen window”. (Sayre702) In this…

Sara Hatab Rebecca Krug Engl 3003W October 19 2016 Women during the Anglo-Saxon Time Periods In the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel 's mother attacks Heorot 's mead hall to get back at the people who murdered her son, Grendel. Doing so causes Beowulf to follow her, and she yanks him down to her hidden lake where he manages to behead her with his magical sword. In Judith, the nominal character, Judith herself, behaves just as heinously as Grendel 's mother; she defies her society 's commanders '…