Art · Skopia

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5 works

Judith Slaying Holofernes

1620 · Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Judith and her maid hold Holofernes down together and work the blade through his throat. Artemisia painted it a decade after her rape trial.

★ 8.8

1640 · Louvre, Paris

One oil lamp, one skull in her lap, and a flame she does not take her eyes off. Everything else is dark.

★ 7.1

1630 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

While the old woman reads his palm, three young accomplices are quietly taking his purse and lifting a medal off his neck.

★ 6.8

1642 · Louvre, Paris

Christ as a boy holds a candle for his father and the flame glows red through his fingers, which is the whole subject.

★ 6.5

1640 · Musee d'Arts Nantes, Nantes

A child-angel leans toward the sleeping old man, its small fingers glowing translucent where they pass in front of the candle flame.

★ 5.9