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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