\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 The biblical theme is removed from its original, historical context and placed in a modern setting in this painting.\par
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e heroine Judith is dressed in the fashionable clothing of a lady at a Renaissance court. The painstaking realism with which the fabrics and jewelry are depicted extends to the terrible head of Holofernes as well, so that the contrast between the two fi
