Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)
…biblical episode by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio, painted in c. 1599 – 1600 or 1602, in which the widow Judith stayed with the Assyrian general Holofernes in his tent after a banquet then decapitated him after he passed out drunk. The painting was rediscovered in 1950 and is part of the collection of the…