The interpretation of the famous women of the Bible by artists from the late Gothic and the Renaissance till the 20th century. Judith, Salome, Hagar, Tamar, Esther, Rebecca…
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Judith and Holofernes (1901) by the Austrian Symbolist and Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).
Judith is lasciviously caressing the head of Holofernes. There is nothing historical in this painting - Judith is a modern woman, her hairstyle is...
Samson and Delilah (1878) by the French Academic Painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).
Cabanel was the preferred painter of Napoleon III and one of the leading representatives of the so called “L'art pompier”. He and William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
Jephthah (1867) by the English Pre-Raphaelite Painter John Everett Millais (1829–1896).
Millais focuses on the despair of the father. His daughter is seating on his lap. Gazing into the void she is trying to comfort her father. The whole picture is...
Bathsheba (1875-77) by the French painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906).
Cézanne is considered as a Post-Impressionist painter and a kind of bridge between Impressionism and modern art like Cubism. So it’s interesting how he treated here the old...
Hagar in the Wilderness (1835) by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875).
Corot was a Realist painter and a leading member of the Barbizon school in mid-nineteenth century France. Therefore he focused normally on landscape...
