Woman on top: interpreting Barthel Beham’s Judith Seated on the Body of Holofernes

At no point in the apocryphal text does Judith, a wise and beautiful Jewish widow, sit on Holofernes, the Assyrian general laying siege to her city. Yet, in 1525, Barthel Beham, a young artist from Nuremberg, created Judith Seated on the Body of Holofernes, an engraving in which a voluptuous nude Ju...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grimmett, Kendra Jo
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Sex
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/25827