Some of the most beautiful and rending art comes in the name of saintly women impassioned by their devotion to God. This tour introduces you to Joan of Arc, burned at the stake for her support of the French during the Hundred Years War; Parvati, the Indian goddess of fertility; Venus, the Roman goddess of love; and Judith, who sliced off the head of Assyrian general Holofernes to save her town.
(At the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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Image credit: Joan of Arc, Jules Bastion Lepage, 1879.