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Artemis was the daughter of the great Leto and the great Zeus (Roman, Luke, and Monica Roman, 2010). Artemis had a twin brother named Apollo. She was a very helpful goddess, she was the goddess of wilderness, and wild animals. She helped midwifes as a goddess of birth (Roman, Luke, and Monica Roman, 2010). She also was a huntress, meaning she hunted. Artemis comes from Ortygia, a island near Italy. “Ortygia is an island which is a historical centere of the city of Syracuse, Sicily”. Some don’t…

Tina Modotti was an italian photographer. She did modeling and acting. She was important figure in revolutionary politics. She was born august 17, 1896 in udine, italy. She died on january 5, 1942 in mexico city, mexico. She immigrated to the United States when she was 16. She acted in plays and silent movies. In 1920 she met a photographer named Edward Weston. This caused her to be interested in photography. Edward mentored her and guided her through photography. By 1923 they moved to mexico…

The story of Judith slaying Holofernes is widely interpreted in many paintings. The story comes from the Book of Judith. Judith was a wealthy, young, and beautiful widow. She decided to travel to the Assyrian commander in chief, Holofernes, to seduce him into leaving Bethulia. She dressed in her finest clothes and jewelry and entered the Assyrian encampment. She charmed Holofernes over the next few days. Once she gained his trust she got him drunk. Before he could attempt any sexual advances she…

Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s painting Judith Beheading Holofernes examines goodness and purity in spite of engaging in the act of sinning. Painted in c.1598, using oil on canvas, this painting illustrates a scene from the biblical Book of Judith. It depicts three subjects in what appears to be a bed chamber. The middle subject, Judith is portrayed in the act of beheading the Assyrian commander, Holofernes while her maid looks on (fig. I). In this painting, Judith retains her status of purity and…

Throughout history, artists have depicted women to uphold different ideals of beauty that directly correlated with the world around them. The Bust of Queen Nefertiti, depicting the grace and power of a dominant Egyptian queen that corresponds with both the views of women as well as idealized beauty of the Amarna period; the Venus of Urbino, a piece that portrays the ideals of beauty, of the Renaissance that still remains fairly unknown in purpose and depiction; and Judith Slaying Holofernes,…

Beginning with the self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, one can see a voluptuous woman with disheveled hair, hard at work painting a canvas. She holds a pallet in the hand she is not painting with, and she looks away from the viewer, but the viewer is still invited into the actual setting of the painting because of the expert foreshortening Gentileschi has used. The narrative she paints is this: she is proclaiming herself as…

located in Rome. Recognizing real Caravaggios is a little more complicated because he has a strange place in the history of art. He was notorious and famous in the 17th century and he enthused many imitators and his style was potent, from Dutch to Gentileschi artists for example Gerrit van Honthorst. These “Caravaggisti” spread Caravaggio’s powerful aesthetic and operated all over Europe. But he was also condemned and hated. It was not so much of his violent life or being known for homosexuality…

This painting is one of many versions of the biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi, a well-known female painter of the Baroque period. Although she gained acclaim as a painter, few women of her time had the opportunity to become an artist, a privilege afforded to her in part because her father owned a studio and painted, as well. In the Bible, Holofernes, an Assyrian bully and enemy to Israel, slaughtered his way into the city of Bethulia, a town at the entrance…

Kassandra Bradley Dr. Ilona Szekely Art 200 27 April 2017 Compare and contrast (Eassy number 5) Grant Wood, Parson Weem’s Fable, 1939 Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant, ca. 1625 Grant Wood’s Parson Weem’s Fable and Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Her Maidservant are simliar and different in several ways. Even though the subject matter between both works of art are different there are some existing similarites in composition. By looking at the elements, I gain a better…

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…