Judith (Palma Vecchio)

Judith is an oil on panel painting, attributed to Palma Vecchio, and created in 1525-1528.

Art historians Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle and Joseph Archer Crowe have attributed it to Palma Vecchio, also identifying damage from heavy-handed cleaning, especially on the head of Holofernes.

[1] This attribution has been confirmed by György Gombosi[2] and Giovanni Mariacher,[3] who identified it as a mature work of that artist.

It was kept in the villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano from 1940 to 1944, after which the Germans stole it with other paintings and sculptures and moved them to the Castel Giovo (San Leonardo in Passiria) (Bolzano), intending to take them to Germany.

It was instead returned to Florence in 1945, initially to the Museo degli Argenti in the Palazzo Pitti and then in 1951 the Uffizi.