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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. In the story, Judith, a beautiful widow, is able to enter the tent of Holofernes because of his desire for her.
Artemisia Gentileschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614–1620 Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Cristofano Allori, 1613. Holofernes (Ancient Greek: Ὀλοφέρνης; Hebrew: הולופרנס) was an invading Assyrian general in the Book of Judith, who was beheaded by Judith who entered his camp and decapitated him while he was intoxicated.
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her ...
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]
She shows Judith in the act of beheading rather than showing her holding the head of Holofernes as Cranach did. [7] Donatello contributed his own interpretation with his sculpture Judith and Holofernes where Judith is depicted towering over Holofernes with a sword over her head. Holofernes' body slumps over, and his head is still attached to ...
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c 1612, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. This history is relevant as Gentileschi's early life has come to inform the perspectives of many contemporary feminist art historians, including Mary Garrard, [6] and particularly in the case of Judith Slaying Holofernes.
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, a painting of c. 1570 by Titian; Judith with the Head of Holofernes, a painting of c. 1575–1580 by Paolo Veronese; Judith and Holofernes (studio of Tintoretto), a painting of c. 1577 by the studio of Jacopo Tintoretto; Judith Beheading Holofernes, a painting of 1598–1599 by Caravaggio
[1] [2] [3] The painting depicts the account of Judith beheading Holofernes from the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, which was a popular subject in Baroque art. References [ edit ]