Titian 1487/90 – 1576
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
oil on canvas (89 × 73 cm) — c. 1515
This work is linked to Judith 13:9
Art and the Bible - Judith 13 - Apocrypha
Judith 13 1 Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
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Judith had succeeded in luring the enemy warlord Holofernes into his tent, where she seized the opportunity to cut of his head while his guards were outside. Here she holds the head on a dish, as her servant looks at her with an almost adoring gaze.
It was long thought that Titian's painting depicted another biblical decapitation: that of St. John the Baptist. But the main figure in the painting looks so tempting that she has to be Judith, the attractive widow from Bethulia.
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