Too No U
Too No U is a massive 55"x 84" painting on canvas. It was inspired by the Renaissance artist Caraavaggio. Wondering how the artist would have approached art and particularly compositional problems if he had access to a computer, Stettner borrows this detail from Caraavaggio’s Judith and Holofernes.
The beheading of Holofernes by Judith was a subject for several other works of art by such names as Donatello, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Titian, Horace Vernet, Gustav Klimt, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Hermann-Paul. Their story also inspired a medieval Old English poem, a play by Abraham Goldfaden, oratorios by Antonio Vivaldi, and W. A. Mozart, and an operetta by Jacob Pavlovitch Adler. Also, Michelangelo depicts the scene in multiple aspects in one of the Pendentives, or four spandrels on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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