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Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of the biblical episode by Caravaggio, painted in c. 1598–1599 or 1602, [1] in which the widow Judith stayed with the Assyrian general Holofernes in his tent after a banquet then decapitated him after he passed out drunk. [2]
Judith slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1614–18. The account of the beheading of Holofernes by Judith is given in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, and is the subject of many paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Judith beheading Holofernes was a very popular story amongst Baroque artists. Artemisia Gentileschi's contemporary Johann Liss stayed abreast with the Baroque style by including macabre imagery in his painting, Judith in the Tent of Holofernes. The painting shows the headless body of Holofernes slumping over.
Judith Slaying Holofernes c. 1620, now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, [1] is the renowned painting by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi depicting the assassination of Holofernes from the apocryphal Book of Judith.
In the Middle Ages, Judith was often cast in the same light as the Virgin, comparing their similar triumphs of beheading characters that represented evil—Holofernes and the devil, respectively. [5] Steering away from an all-encompassing approach to story-telling, Renaissance art marked the beginning of focusing entirely on the suspenseful ...
A painting of Judith beheading Holofernes said to have been discovered in an attic in Toulouse in 2014 is believed by some scholars and experts to be the lost Caravaggio. It resembles a painting of lower quality in the collection of the Intesa Sanpaolo bank in Naples which has traditionally been regarded as a copy after an original, lost work ...
Judith and the Head of Holofernes (also known as Judith I, German: Judith und Holofernes) [1] is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, painted in 1901.It depicts the biblical figure Judith holding the head of Holofernes after beheading him.
Judith Beheading Holofernes is a 1607 oil on canvas painting by Louis Finson, now owned by the Banco di Napoli and hanging in the Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Naples. Finson stayed in Naples from 1604 to 1612. [1] and there became a Caravaggist before Caravaggio's departure from the city in 1607. Finson then stayed in Provence on the way back ...