Violence and Virtue - Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith Slaying Holofernes" : Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith Slaying Holofernes"

"Violence and Virtue examines a single, uniquely powerful painting: Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. A quintessential example of early Baroque painting, this work has, more than any other picture in her oeuvre, come to define Gentileschi as an early modern woman and a superb Baroque painter. Eve Straussman-Pflanzer explores the c