Judith, Abra, the Sword Made of Morion, without the Bloody Head of Holofernes, or the Delicacies of the Counter-Reformation
Judith, Abra, the Sword Made of Morion, without the Bloody Head of Holofernes, or the Delicacies of the Counter-Reformation
Friday, February 20, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Admission free.
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A.
…not quite “without.” The head, we surmise, is hidden in a basket, carefully held by the old maid Abra. The crime has undoubtedly already been committed, as evidenced by the servant’s admiring gaze at the mistress. Surely not a cleaver made of rock crystal with a gold handle?
B.
Or perhaps the crime hasn’t happened yet? We see the moment of decision and the consecration of the author of the assassination. The weapon is raised in a gesture of oath. God will kill the leader by the hand of a woman. And what do you think? Is there, besides devotion, adoration in old Abra’s wise eyes? „We’ll put THIS in the basket, under the cloth!”
C.
The artist in the story follows his own path, far from the baroque ostentation and the modest expressive possibilities of today’s painters, freed from the grand biblical narrative. A play of glances, an aura of understatement, cool tones, metallic colors, flickering candlelight. Anyone who enjoys a thrilling mystery, Shakespeare and Clouzot, le Carré and Verhoeven, will be in seventh heaven.
D.
The presence of Jewish heroin in popular culture will facilitate our polemic with Eveline Baseggio’s article-herstory „From Scripture to Stage and Canvas: The Evolution of Judith,” published in the latest issue of Artibus et Historiae.
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