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Judith with the Head of Holofernes
around 1610/15 | Carlo Saraceni
To save her native city, the biblical heroine had first dazzled the enemy general Holofernes with her beauty, then killed him. Candlelight illumes the nocturnal events, lending the young woman poetic charm and enabling us to recognise the old servant-woman opening her sack to receive the choppedoff head.

To save her native city, the biblical heroine had first dazzled the enemy general Holofernes with her beauty, then killed him. Candlelight illumes the nocturnal events, lending the young woman poetic charm and enabling us to recognise the old servant-woman opening her sack to receive the choppedoff head.
Artist:
Carlo Saraceni (1579 - 1620 Venedig) DNBarrow_outward
Time:
around 1610/15
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Caravaggio and Caravaggesque painting
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
90 cm × 79 cm
Framed: 112,5 cm × 101,9 cm × 8 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 41
Provenance
1636 Coll. Bartolomeo della Nave, Venice; 1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; 1659 Coll. Leopold Wilhelm; 1735 documented in the gallery
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