Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes

Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, created in 1639-1640.

It was one of many paintings by Gentileschi that treats the theme of Judith, who beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes, who was planning to destroy Judith's home city of Bethulia.

[1] The painting has been in Oslo, in the collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, since 2022.

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