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For Further Reading 📚
Yael Even, “The Loggia dei Lanzi: A Showcase of Female Subjugation,” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (spring-summer 1991), pp. 10-14
Sarah Blake McHam, “Donatello’s Bronze ‘David’ and ‘Judith’ as Metaphors of Medici Rule in Florence,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 83, no. 1 (Mar 2001), pp. 32-47
Mary D. Garrard, “The Cloister and the Square: Gender Dynamics in Renaissance Florence,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 11, no. 1 (fall 2016), pp. 5-44
John T. Paoletti, Michelangelo’s David: Florentine History and Civic Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
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0:00 Intro
2:04 Donatello’s Sculpture of Judith Beheading Holofernes
2:24 Donatello’s Judith and David
3:18 Medici Family and the Florentine Republic
3:54 Judith as Medici Political Propaganda
4:33 The Expulsion of the Medici and Relocation of Judith to the Piazza della Signoria
5:29 Judith and Michelangelo’s David
6:55 Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa in Loggia dei Lanzi
8:02 Giambologna’s Rape of a Sabine Woman
9:25 Conclusion