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Judith Beheading Holofernes
c. 1598–99 · olio su tela (oil on canvas) · Gallerie Nazionali d'Arte Antica - Palazzo Barberini, Rome
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Judith holds Holofernes by the hair and draws the sword through his neck, and the blood runs out in red threads onto the white linen. Her maid stands close with a bag held open. The Kimbell Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art both say Caravaggio shows the stroke itself, not the head after. The bag is for food: Judith had refused his table and eaten only what she brought, and now it will carry his head. The Kimbell reads divine light coursing down her arms. The banker Ottavio Costa hung a silk curtain over it and by will forbade its sale. The curtain kept it.
Sources: Kimbell Art Museum, 'Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes', loan from Palazzo Barberini, 2025-26 · Kimbell Art Museum, 'Guest of Honor: Kimbell Presents Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes' · Nova Vulgata, Liber Iudith 13:9-10 (Holy See) · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Judith 12:2 · Minneapolis Institute of Art, 'Last chance to see Caravaggio at Mia, though the story will remain' · Minneapolis Institute of Art, exhibition page, 'Caravaggio's Judith and Holofernes' · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Judith 12:19
And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body.
Judith 13:10 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)