Sisera [SEP] present in work
Sisera
Sisera ( "Sîsərā") was commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor, who is mentioned in of the Hebrew Bible. After being defeated by the forces of the Israelite tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali under the command of Barak and Deborah, Sisera was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent peg into his temple.
Biblical account.
According to the biblical book of Judges, Sisera commanded nine hundred iron chariots and oppressed the Israelites for twenty years from Harosheth Haggoyim, a fortified cavalry base
and form the basis for further attributions. His oeuvre is not yet clearly defined since the attribution of drawings is hampered by the fact that the artist's work was widely imitated.
His close study of the art of the Italian Renaissance masters informs the muscular, monumental figures in his work. In his "Jaël and Sisera" (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) the short perspective of the deceased Sisera shows the Mannerist preoccupation with the depiction of the human body. The emphatic, somewhat theatrical, postures of Jael and her companion