Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472 – 1553
Judith Dining with Holofernes
oil on panel (98 × 72 cm) — 1531
Lucas Cranach the Elder biography
This work is linked to Judith 12:17
Art and the Bible - Judith 12 - Apocrypha
Judith 12 1 Then he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set; and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that she should drink of his own wine. 2 And Judith said, I will not eat thereof, lest there be an offence: but provisio
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Judith dines with the enemy warlord Holofernes. He is impressed by her beauty and feels a strong desire for her. He drinks too much wine, so that later in his tent he promptly falls asleep. In the museum in Gotha is another panel of similar size where Cranach depicted what happened in the tent.
Cranach set the scene in a German landscape, with the city of Wittenberg in the background.
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