Beheadings And Ferocity At The National Gallery: Artemisia Is An Artist We Should All Know About — londonist.com

Warning: this review and this exhibition deal with rape, violence and torture. Judith and her maid have pinned down the Assyrian General Holofernes and Judith is beheading him with his own sword. There's blood spurting out in arcs and on to the two women, and soaking the sheets underneath. This brutal and gruesome painting is by the talented 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi in her exhibition at The National Gallery.

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