Hi Dan! Thanks for making me ‘featured’ in your excellent series on the Bible.
For this edition, I like picture #1 the best. It shows the widow as a young woman and draws in the viewer’s sympathy for her youth, beauty, and the young child with her.
I often fall into the fallacy of imagining the widow as old or middle-aged, but with the death rate in the ancient world, youthful widows were not unusual. The young child implies her youth.
I am perfectly happy to hear which pictures posters like the most, especially when they force themselves to articulate exactly why, as you just did. In this instance I’m especially glad, because Strozzi’s is my favorite too—indeed, that’s why it appears at the top. As editor and OP it’s not my role to poison the well by spouting off my preference, but I can certainly shout “Amen!”