Stories in Art: Connections

Articles by Rebecca Daroff DiMattia:

Massimo Stanzione Judith with the Head of Holofernes, c. 1630–3 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Connections:

• Comparing Bathsheba & Susannah: One creepy onlooker, or two?
• Comparing David & Judith: Heroic decapitators
• Comparing Joseph & Mars: Avoiding clingy women
• Comparing Lucrezia & Susannah: Making impossible choices -- coming soon
• Judith & Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder
• Sculptures of David

Stories in Art:
Monthly articles on my photoblog about paintings that tell stories:

• Adam & Eve: Shameful nudity
• Cain & Abel: Disfunctional brothers
• Lot and his Daughters: Can this story get any creepier? -- coming soon

Related Projects:

• The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
• Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
• Pinterest: My Stories in Art board on Pinterest

Other Resources for Stories in Art:
A partial list of websites have been incredibly useful to me in this project

• Biblegateway.com
• Ovid's Metamorphoses on PoetryinTranslation.com
• Web Gallery of Art
• The Straight Dope