Judith with the Head of Holofernes  1665

[i]Circle of Elisabetta Sirani[/i] [br][i]Circle of Giovanni Andrea Sirani [/i]According to the Book of Judith, the Jewish widow Judith saved the Israelites from the Assyrians by decapitating their general Holofernes, whose army had besieged her city. She did this after having made him drunk at a banquet. Judith is commonly depicted as being assisted by an older maidserv...