All This Is That: Hammering Woman a/k/a Yael depicted in Bartolomeo Veneto's "Woman With A Hammer"

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Hammering Woman a/k/a Yael depicted in Bartolomeo Veneto's "Woman With A Hammer"

By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Ed.

This fascinating painting is Woman with a Hammer by Bartolomeo Veneto, painted in roughly 1500. The painting depicts Yael from the Book of Judges. Yael killed Sisera to deliver Israel from King Jabin: “While he lay asleep Yael crept stealthily up to him, holding a tent peg and a mallet. She drove it through his temples with such force that it entered into the ground below.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I would love to have Yael as my wife, she killed Sierra in self-defense! My kind of woman, strong and feminine women are amazing!; 7/25/2022
Anonymous said...: Check out Susan Kuhnhausen, her story is similar to Yael's! They both killed men in self-defence!; 7/25/2022
Anonymous said...: Sorry,I misspelled Sisera!; 7/25/2022

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