Judith Beheading Holofernes

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Artist : Caravaggio

Title : Judith Beheading Holofernes

Object type: painting

Genre : religious art

Year : c. 1598–1599

Medium : Oil-on-canvas

Dimensions : 145 cm × 195 cm (57 in × 77 in)

Location: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of the biblical episode by Caravaggio, painted in c. 1598–1599, in which the widow Judith remain with the Assyrian general Holofernes in his tent after a banquet then decapitated him after he passed out drunk. The deuterocanonical Book of Judith tells how Judith served her people by seducing and pleasuring Holofernes, the Syrian General. Judith gets Holofernes drunk, then grabs her sword and slays him: "Approaching to his bed, she took hold of the hair of his head"The painting was rediscovered in 1950 and is part of the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. The exhibition 'Dentro Caravaggio' Palazzo Reale, Milan (Sept 2017-Jan 2018), suggests a date of 1602 on account of the use of light underlying sketches not seen in Caravaggio's early work but characteristic of his later works. The exhibition catalogue (Skira, 2018, p88) also cites biographer artist Giovanni Baglione's account that the work was commissioned by Genoa banker Ottavio Costa.

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