Bible in art

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His understanding of the Bible, there are the artists, and those who are interested in fine arts: she served as a source of stories for the innumerable multitude of paintings, drawings and sculptures created over the vast, almost two millennia, the historical period. Biblical stories were visual form in thousands of sculptures, frescoes, icons, paintings, drawings and engravings. Each of these product offers its own version gleaned from the Bible story, the originality of which is determined by the person and gifted artist who was influenced by a great many factors of social and cultural life of their country and their times.

Judith

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In the European art of Judith is portrayed either in the process of killing, either already with the severed head of Holofernes in his hands. Widespread paintings and engravings, combining the eternal themes of sex and violence, in which Judith is often depicted naked.