Women in the Bible

Judith and Holofernes (c 1615-8) by the Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (1589-1655).

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by theItalian Mannerist painter Jacopo Coppi (1523-1591).

Judith by the Flemish manierist painter Jan Massys (c. 1509-1575). Even today she looks really seductive.

A proud and elegant Judith (c.1595) by the Italian painter Agostino Carracci (1557-1602).

Judith (c. 1630-35) by the Italian Baroque painter Massimo Stanzione (1586-1656). That's a really cool reduced painting nearly already ...

Judith. A really perfect painting by the Italian Mannerist painter Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (1535-1607). She ...

Judith and Holofernes (1577/78) by the Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto (1518–1594).

Judith Beheading Holofernes (1598-99) by the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1580) by the Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese (1529-1588). Judith has already cut off the head ...

Judith (c.1540) by the Flemish Renaissance painter Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1500–1556). Here a completely nude Judith is raising self confi...

Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1726) by the Dutch Baroque painter Philip van Dijk (1683 –1753). Van Dijk depicted here a pale exhausted...

Judith and Holofernes (c.1927) by the German painter Franz von Stuck (1863-1928). Stuck painted here a self-confident strong woman who is re...

This Judith and Holofernes (c.1554) is by the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). Interesting is the two dimensional red...

Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1608) by the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Baglione (1571-1643). It’s a very dramatic scenery. A v...

Here a medieval illustration from the 15th century depicting Holofernes burning down a city. Despite there’s no Judith it shows why she had ...

Here three more examples of Judith by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1533). He was court painter to the Electo...

Judith and Holofernes (1901) by the Austrian Symbolist and Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Judith is lasciviously caressing th...

Judith and Holofernes (1831) by the French painter Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863). This today nearly unknown painting was a great even...

This Judith by the French painter Joseph Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) resembles a lot the other one. It’s also a proud woman who doesn’t ne...

Judith (c. 1530-33) by the Italian/Flemish Renaissance painter Ambrosius Benson (c.1490-1550). This painting resembles still a medieval alta...