Jan Saenredam1575
Judith
Judith stands resolute after delivering her besieged city, having gone into the enemy camp and struck down the commander Holofernes (Judith 13). An engraving by the Dutch artist Jan Saenredam (1575).

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Jan Saenredam was a Dutch engraver trained under Hendrick Goltzius whose biblical plates — often reproducing compositions by Cornelis van Haarlem and Abraham Bloemaert — circulated widely across seventeenth-century Europe.
