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Judith with the Head of Holofernes (after 1613?)  Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)  Vatican Museum, Rome  Replica of the painting kept at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Legend had it, and Filippo Baldinucci (1624-1697) so described, that the face of Judith was a portrait of Allori's lover, La Mazzafirra, the old woman her mother, and the head of Holofernes was a self-portrait. Head Of Holofernes, Judith And Holofernes, Rage Art, Vatican Museum, Rennaissance Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Baroque Art, Art Classique, Classical Art

Judith with the Head of Holofernes (after 1613?) Cristofano Allori (1577-1621) Vatican Museum, Rome Replica of the painting kept at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Legend had it, and Baldinucci so described, that the face of Judith was a portrait of Allori's lover, La Mazzafirra, the old woman her mother, and the head of Holofernes was a self-portrait.

Elisabetta Sirani, Rage Art, Pipilotti Rist, Women Artist, Female Painters, Artemisia Gentileschi, Angry Women, Rennaissance Art, Baroque Art

Britain declared war on Germany just after U.A. Fanthorpe’s birthday in 1939. She was ten. Living in Kent she was familiar with the signs and sounds, fears and deprivations of wartime England. She knows the enemy – whom she calls by the popular put-down, the Hun – by “the nightly whines, searchlights, thuds, bomb-sites”. Her French teacher is distressed and distracted…Continue Reading→

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