''Judith'' is an oil on panel painting, attributed to Palma Vecchio, and created in 1525-1528. It is held in the Uffizi, in Florence. The attribution to Palma Vecchio was questioned in the past but is now usually accepted. 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. This attribution has been confirmed by György Gombosi and Giovanni Mariacher,Giovanni Mariacher, ''Palma il Vecchio'', Milano, Bramante, 1968 who identified it as a mature work of that artist.

History

The painting is now exhibited in a later baroque frame with gold leaf gilding. The work was originally in the Della Rovere collection at the Ducal Palace, Urbino. Attributed to both Titian and Palma there, it remained in that collection from 1526 to 1631, after which it entered the Medici collection following

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's marriage to Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He placed it in the 'Guardaroba' of the Palazzo Pitti before in 1798 moving to the Uffizi, where it was attributed to

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. It was kept in the

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from 1940 to 1944, after which the Germans stole it with other paintings and sculptures and moved them to the

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(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.

Exhibition history

* 2011 - ''Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones e il mito dell'Italia nell'Inghilterra vittoriana'', Roma. * 2015 - ''Palma il Vecchio. Lo sguardo della bellezza'', Bergamo.

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References

Bibliography

* Gallerie degli Uffizi, ''Gli Uffizi: Catalogo generale'', Firenze, Centro Di, 1980, p. 398 979 SBN IT\ICCU\RAV\0060995. * Philip Rylands, ''Palma il Vecchio: l'opera completa'', Milano, A. Mondadori, 1988, SBN IT\ICCU\LO1\0021755. * Giovanni C. F. Villa (ed.), ''Palma il Vecchio: Lo sguardo della bellezza'', Milano, Skira, 2015, {{Palma Vecchio 1528 paintings Paintings in the Uffizi Paintings by Palma Vecchio

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