"Judith with Head of Horofernes"
A painting
that impresses me is "Judith with Head of Horofernes." At first, I
confused the Judith with Salome. After searching by website, I knew that Judith
was a widow, who protected her country from being destroyed by an Assyria
general, Horofernes, and Salome was a dangerous female, who killed John the
Baptist. Although the two commonly seduced one man and decapitated him, but the
former was a brave patriot and the latter was an evil girl. It is so
complicated for me. While I first knew Salome from the painting by Klimt and
the play by Wilde, the Judith was not so popular in Japan. I guess that most
men don't want to meet females like Salome, but may like to watch them in
paintings or movies.
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