Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)

Caravaggio

1599 · Galleria Nazionale, Rome

Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of the biblical episode by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio, painted in c. 1598 – 1599 or 1602, 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.

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