Gallery label
Plate five explicitly places Judith inside a Power of Women series, so serial order—not only the isolated scene—controls how victory is read.
Look closely
Judith bends across Holofernes's sprawling body while the maid waits at the tent opening. Weapons and vessels crowd the foreground; classicizing bodies turn the camp into a densely staged moral theatre.
Why this Judith matters
The sheet makes transmission visible: Heemskerck invents, Coornhert engraves, and a numbered series frames Judith through other gendered contests. Reproduction distributes authorship as well as imagery.
Sources for this record:Metropolitan Museum of Art object record ↗
“Plate five explicitly places Judith inside a Power of Women series, so serial order—not only the isolated scene—controls how victory is read.”
Narrative index
Primary catalogue placement: the act, Judith 13:6–8. The index organizes comparison; it does not claim that every visual detail comes from those verses or that the work touches only one episode.
