Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1656
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Naples)
oil on canvas (159 × 125 cm) — 1612
Artemisia Gentileschi biography
This work is linked to Judith 13:8
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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The widow Judith and her maid have lured the enemy warlord Holofernes into letting them into his tent. While he sleeps Judith decapitates him. That would start a chain of events leading to the end of the siege of Judith's city.
Gentileschi made a very realistic and therefor bloody depiction of the scene.
It is a pretty composition. There is a nice triangle of figures, joined by their arms.
Judith's pose is somewhat similar to the one in Caravaggio's version of Judith and Holofernes (1599). It is not unlikely that the young Gentileschi saw that painting in Rome.
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