The biblical widow Judith and her maid hold down the Assyrian general and saw through his neck. Where most painters showed a hesitant heroine, Artemisia gives us two women doing hard physical work. This is the earlier of her two versions; the later one is in the Uffizi.
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Follow the arms: they form a pinwheel of force that all converges on the sword at the centre.
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