Details from Giorgione’s “Judith with the Head of Holofernes”, c.1505.“Giorgione shows the heroic instance, the triumph of victory by Judith stepping on Holofernes’s severed, decaying head. But the emblem of Virtue is flawed, for the one bare leg appearing through a special slit in the dress evokes eroticism, indicates ambiguity and is thus a first allusion to Judith’s future reversals from Mary to Eve, from warrior to femme fatale.” (Renate Peters, “The Metamorphoses of Judith in Literature and Art: War by Other Means”).
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Rodin
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Théobald Chartran (French, 1849-1907), “La joueuse de mandore” (detail).
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Lamia (detail) by Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)
oil on canvas, 1909
In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet, referring to her habit of devouring children. x
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La fragua de Vulcano (detail), Diego Velazquez
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The Suicide of Lucretia (Detail) Meester met de Papegaai,1525.
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John Singer Sargent: Villa Papa Giulio, Study of a Balustrade (1906-1907) via The Athenaeum
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