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The widow Judith grimaces as she saws through the neck of the Assyrian general Holofernes, blood spurting onto white sheets, her maidservant waiting with a sack.
Significance
The brutal realism shocked contemporaries: Judith's expression mixes determination with revulsion. Artemisia Gentileschi later painted her own famous response to this composition.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
145 cm × 195 cm
Location
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy