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Judith Slaying Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1614–1620, Oil on canvas

This is one of the most intense and unforgettable scenes in Baroque art.

Judith, a widow from the Hebrew Bible, has entered the tent of the Assyrian general Holofernes. After getting him drunk, she and her maidservant kill him to save her people. Many artists painted this moment, but Artemisia Gentileschi’s version is especially direct and powerful.

There’s no dramatic pause or symbolic gesture here — she shows the moment of the act itself: Judith steady, focused, sleeves rolled up, while Holofernes struggles against her. The blood sprays, his limbs tense, and the physical effort of the women is clear. It's unflinching.

Artemisia was one of the most prominent female painters of the Baroque era, and her life shaped her art. She was trained by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, and later survived a traumatic experience involving one of his colleagues — a fellow artist who assaulted her. Artemisia took him to court and endured a public trial, including torture to test her testimony.

Her Judith isn’t just a biblical heroine — she’s a woman with agency, strength, and purpose. Where Caravaggio’s version includes some detachment, Artemisia gives us something far more physical and immediate. Her painting demands attention, not pity.

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Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506 CE) was an Italian Renaissance artist most famous for his use of foreshortening and other perspective techniques in engravings, paintings, and frescoes. Another common feature of Mantegna’s work is his frequent use of ancient Roman sculpture and architecture as a setting for his innovative presentation of familiar religious and mythological subjects. Amongst his most celebrated works are the cycle of frescoes in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua and such paintings as the Agony in the Garden and Lamentation of Christ, all triumphs of three-dimensional perspective in a two-dimensional medium.

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𝕮𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝕰𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖝, 𝖇𝖞 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝖕𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗

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savory tarts by elizabethmayhew

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Nyx, Night Goddess by Gustave Moreau (1880)

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I miss you every day. My heart aches each day. See you on the other side my love. You be good and play hard. I will be there in no time❤️‍🩹

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When Cleopatra welcomed Mark Antony to her bedroom, the floor was covered in a foot and a half of such petals. Did they use the floor, and make love in a swamp of soft, fragrant, shimmying petals? Or did they use the bed, as if they were on a raft floating in a scented ocean?

Cleopatra knew her guest. Few people have been as obsessed with roses as the ancient Romans. Roses were strewn at public ceremonies and banquets; rose water bubbled through the emperor’s fountains and the public baths surged with it; in the public amphitheaters, crowds sat under sun awnings steeped in rose perfume; rose petals were used as pillow stuffings; people wore garlands of roses in their hair; they ate rose pudding; their medicines, love potions, and aphrodisiacs all contained roses. No bacchanalia, the Romans’ official orgy, was complete without an excess of roses. They created a holiday, Rosalia, to formally consummate their passion for the flower. At one banquet, Nero had silver pipes installed under each plate, so that guests could be spritzed with scent between courses. They could admire a ceiling painted to resemble the celestial heavens, which would open up and shower them in a continuous rain of perfume and flowers. At another, he spent the equivalent of $160,000 just on roses—and one of his guests smothered to death under a shower of rose petals.

— Diane Ackerman, ‘Smell: Roses’ A Natural History of the Senses

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Sometimes having a reputation for being smart beats actually being smart.

I once beat my school’s chess champion in a game because he spent the entire match desperately trying to work out my strategy because I was “smart” and therefore good at chess.

We were playing with a Lord of the Rings chess set. I was moving the characters I liked best.

I’m terrible at chess.

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Weather was beautiful! And I saw God smile🍀

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— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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erin lecount, sweet fruit

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Joy Sullivan, from "(Luck I)", Instructions for Traveling West

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Man hustles. Destiny delivers.

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Michelle Zauner | Time Magazine: Time Off Opener

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It's June. Sadness takes over but hope still resides.