Judith beheading Holofernes has various depictions. Here are two of many—the first is the one The Mad Mane Machine presumed the most brutal. Coming second is another that appeared in a horror pulp magazine, even though the maiden seems to be doing the severing here—pure Victorian era, grandeur done away with.
—Artemisia Gentileschi
—Mary Byfield (for 'Penny Dreadful' magazine The Ghost 1983)
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