Holofernes

and this is very biased because she is a woman, although she doesn 't have much to gain from saying it. Then there was Artemisia Gentileschi who painted Judith beheading Holofernes and in this painting it 's shown that a woman is beheading a man with the help of another woman possibly her maid. It shows the superiority of women because it 's showing that women are strong and that they can take charge and be powerful when…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Bunonarroti Simoni was born March 6, 1475 and died February 18, 1564. He is considered to be one the most famous and successful artist from the Italian Renaissance. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect as well as a poet. Michelangelo’s Sculpture of David is a magnificent testimony of the art and where people were at, at this time in the early Renaissances. Michelangelo’s works were claimed to be better than anyone else’s and that no other artwork could…

be nearly as compelling without it. Would Saving Private Ryan be as gripping and harrowing without violence? Would the words of Inferno by Dante Alighieri be so well-regarded and loved by so many through history? Would the painting Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi still depict the same tale of feminine heroism and hang in the Museo di Capodimonte in Italy? I argue they would not and that violence is an essential…

this to make his paintings a cut above the rest. Caravaggio on the other hand had drawings that portrayed deep and symbolic messages. The emotions he felt during his life was plastered onto his canvas, as seen through the painting, Judith Beheading Holofernes, and other paintings. He had a fixation on death and things of that nature. Caravaggio was able to sneak in many symbols of religion that would fly over our heads today.…

As a tribute to the story of the Bible, Donatello and Michelangelo both recreated David through their own interpretations. Both artists were similarly influenced by the environment around them as they recreated this figure. The sculpted faces of Donatello’s and Michelangelo’s Davids each reflect a representation of the Florentine government at the time of their creation. Although the actual date of the sculpting of David is unknown, a rough estimate claims for it to be around 1420s to 1460s.…