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tomyris kills cyrus, judith kills holofernes, jael kills sisera
miniatures from a speculum humanae salvationis manuscript, bavaria (?), c. 1466-68
source: Munich, BSB, Clm 18377, fol. 65v-66v
Jael, Deborah and Barak
Artist: Salomon de Bray (Dutch, 1597-1664)
Date: c. 1630
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Description
Jael appears in the biblical Book of Judges. Deborah (with hands clasped in prayer) prophesied that the enemy would be defeated thanks to a woman, rather than by general Barak (in the background, looking diffident in spite of his helmet and armor). When the enemy’s commander Sisera was resting, Jael killed him instantly by driving a tent peg through his temple – the artist captures her grimace of fierce resolution, hammer still in hand. Jael was an ambiguous heroine, as she was often presented as a warning to men: with her exotic garments and low neckline, her attractiveness makes her dangerous.
Sisera: *talking in his sleep* You fool! No man can kill me!
Jael: *kneeling by his head with a tent peg and hammer* I am no man.
House of the Dragon S1 Jael and Sisera by Artemisia Gentileschi
Jael Kills Sisera aka Out-of-Context Andor Spoilers
Marcelle Hanselaar (Dutch, 1945), Jael and Sisera
