Apropos of the season...

[Sue U]

It's that time of year when we tell the story of how she put the general's head in her lunch bag, and this is a great rendition:

Beware of Confident Women With Swords.



And Karen O gets into the holiday spirit:

[Scooter]

The book of Judith is part of the Roman Catholic canon. And while I was In Florence in the fall I noticed that she was a favored subject of a number of Renaissance artists.

[Sue U]

Judith was kind of an avatar for the House of Medici, so you'll naturally see a lot of Judith art from Renaissance/Baroque Florence.