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LESSON 5 · Women Who Shaped Art History

PAUSE TO THINK

Which violent biblical scene did Artemisia return to more than once?

Judith beheading Holofernes

She painted the subject twice, and in some versions the dying general is said to resemble her real attacker. The compositions are blood-spattered and physically convincing in a way her male contemporaries rarely matched.

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