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TO JUDITH'S TRIUMPH

From bed down to the floor all bloody hangs
the right shoulder of the merciless tyrant,
who storming futilely Bethulia's wall,
hurled bolts against himself towards heaven's hold.
Vertido Baco reveals the cruel, inhuman spectacle
In agony tangled, the red veil
of the pavilion, on the lefthand side,

of his dreadful trunk, now icy cold.
Spilled Bacchus stains his sturdy coat of mail,
the glasses and the table overturned;
the guards sleep, who stand him in such poor stead;
and there, atop the jagged city wall
of Israel's tribe, the Hebrew woman chaste
appears resplendent, brandishing his head.

Es una imagen poética de como el " Vino" puede ser un aliado poderoso para hacer Justicia, dando
muerte a la Tiranía a manos de los Oprimidos.
Tema muy recurrente en los cuadros Bíblicos-Religiosos de los pintores del Barroco, como
Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Artemisa Gentillichi y posteriormente Goya.

Jaime de Jaraiz
Pintor y Académico de Extremadura
Painter and Academic of Extremadura

It is a poetic image of how "Wine" could be a powerful ally to do Justice, killing (the) Tyranny at
the hands of the Oppressed.
It is a recurrent topic in the biblical and religious paintings of the Baroque artists such as
Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Artemisa Gentillichi and later Goya.

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