Holofernes
noun
Ho·lo·fer·nes
ˌhä-lə-ˈfər-(ˌ)nēz 
ˌhō-
: a general of Nebuchadnezzar's who led an Assyrian army against Israel and was beheaded in his sleep by Judith
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Like Flock, Motz is interested in the lore of female vengeance: Judith beheading Holofernes, Medea killing her sons to spite Jason, Clytemnestra stabbing Agamemnon in the bath.
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Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Creel revisits a final conversation with that ex just before bringing up a painting of Judith With the Head of Holofernes.
—Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
The paintings tell the Old Testament story of Judith beheading Holofernes; one was made by a young Italian woman around 1612, the other by a gay Nigerian-American man in 2012.
—Brittanie Shey, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
Her inspirations for the video range from Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) to Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) and Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 19 May 2021
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Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Creel revisits a final conversation with that ex just before bringing up a painting of Judith With the Head of Holofernes.
—Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
The paintings tell the Old Testament story of Judith beheading Holofernes; one was made by a young Italian woman around 1612, the other by a gay Nigerian-American man in 2012.
—Brittanie Shey, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
Her inspirations for the video range from Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) to Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) and Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 19 May 2021
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“Holofernes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Holofernes. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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