Judith and Holofernes (Goya)
Judith and Holofernes | |
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Spanish: Judith y Holofernes | |
Francisco de Goya | |
Year | 1819–23 |
Type | Oil mural transferred to canvas |
Dimensions | 143.5 cm × 81.4 cm (56.5 in × 32.0 in) |
Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Judith and Holofernes is the name given to one of the 14
Judith and Holofernes' palette consists of blacks, ochres and red applied with very free, broad and energetic brushstrokes. The lighting is both focused and highly theatrical, and seems to imply a night scene lit by a torch, which illuminates Judith's face and outstretched arm and leaves in semidarkness the face of the old serving woman whose darkened outline is shown in prayer. Significantly, neither Holofernes nor the blood streaming from his neck is shown, as is typical of most artistic renderings.
Given Goya's bitter disillusionment over the second restoration of
Along with the other works in the series, the painting was transferred to canvas in 1873–74 for Baron Émile d'Erlanger under the supervision of Salvador Martínez Cubells, a curator at the Museo del Prado. D'Erlanger donated all 14 canvases to the Prado in 1881.[5]
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Hughes, 16
- ^ Fernández, G. "Goya: The Black Paintings". theartwolf.com, August 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ Hughes, 379
- ^ Jones, Jonathan. "Look what we did". The Guardian, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ Hughes, 16–17
Bibliography
- Benito Oterino, Agustín, La luz en la quinta del sordo: estudio de las formas y cotidianidad, Madrid, Universidad Complutense, 2002, p. 33. Edición digital ISBN 84-669-1890-6.
- Bozal, Valeriano, Francisco Goya, vida y obra, (2 vols.) Madrid, Tf. Editores, 2005. ISBN 84-96209-39-3.
- Bozal, Valeriano, Pinturas Negras de Goya, Tf. Editores, Madrid, 1997.
- Glendinning, Nigel, Francisco de Goya, Madrid, Cuadernos de Historia 16 (col. «El arte y sus creadores», nº 30), 1993.
- Hagen, Rose-Marie and Hagen, Rainer, Francisco de Goya, Cologne, Taschen, 2003. ISBN 3-8228-2296-5.
- ISBN 0-394-58028-1
External links
- Media related to Judith y Holofernes (Goya) at Wikimedia Commons