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David with the Head of Goliath
c. 1610 · Oil on canvas · Galleria Borghese, Rome
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David holds the head out at arm's length by the hair, and he does not look glad. The sword hangs low in his other hand. The Galleria Borghese reads the severed head as Caravaggio's own face, the painter as Goliath, defeated and disgraced, and David as sorrowful, as though the killing cost him something. On the blade Antonio Iommelli reads the letters H-AS OS as humilitas occidit superbiam, humility kills pride. Caravaggio sent the canvas to Cardinal Scipione Borghese from exile in Naples, after he had killed a man in Rome. The giant's mouth is still open. David's is shut.
Sources: Galleria Borghese official page · Antonio Iommelli, 'David con la testa di Golia', scheda di catalogo, Galleria Borghese online collection catalogue, inv. 455, January 2023
He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head. And the Philistines seeing that their champion was dead, fled away.
1 Kings 17:51 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)