Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes, c. 1612, 159 x 125 cm, Naples, Museo di CapodimonteThe
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes, c. 1612, 159 x 125 cm, Naples, Museo di CapodimonteThe picture shows the biblical story of the Jewish widow Judith who saved her city by approaching the Babylonian General Holofernes, enemy of Israel, getting him drunk and then beheading him. This was a fairly common theme at the time. Caravaggio and Rubens both painted it, a work that Artemisia probably knew, but it was made especially violent by her. She seems to take pleasure in the gory details of the beheading. -- source link
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