''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' and ''Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes'' are names given to two paintings by
Cristofano Allori
Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, painting mostly portraits and religious subjects. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his ...
carried out between 1610 and 1613. One hangs in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and is dated to between 1610 and 1612. The second is part of the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom and hangs in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh. There are also several copies and numerous prints by other painters and engravers.
[Whitaker; Clayton 2007.] The painting depicts the account of
Judith beheading Holofernes from the
deuterocanonical ''
Book of Judith
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells ...
'', which was a popular subject in Baroque art.
References
Sources
* Bisceglia, Anna
"Judith with the Head of Holofernes" ''Le Gallerie degli Uffizi''. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
* Bond, Anthony; Woodall, Joanna (2005).
Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary'. London: National Portrait Gallery. p. 96.
* Shearman, John (1983).
The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 6–7.
* Whitaker, Lucy; Clayton, Martin (2007).
The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: Renaissance & Baroque'. St James's Palace, London: Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd. pp. 32, 70, 270–271.
"Judith with the Head of Holofernes Signed and dated 1613" ''Royal Collection Trust''. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
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1610s paintings