telesilla:sophia-helix:harriet-spy:fuckindiva:Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio // Judith Sl
telesilla:sophia-helix:harriet-spy:fuckindiva:Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio // Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi // Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes by Trophime Bigot // Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Peter Paul Rubensalways topicalMood: “coyly beheading with nipslip”Caravaggio: Scarlett Johansson worrying about getting icky blood on her nice white shift. Gentileschi: I, a woman working in a man’s world, painted this burly woman, with help from her equally burly maidservant, really putting her back into hacking a guy’s head off. Subtext? What subtext?Bigot: I’m a little worried about her slicing her hand on the sword there. Also Georges de la Tour really wants his lighting trick back.Rubens: selfie filter: on, general’s head: off, tiddies: out. Holofrenes is forcibly removed from Bethulia -- source link