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Judith with the Head of Holofernes  1530

by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Hebrew heroine Judith presents the severed head of the Assyrian general who besieged her city, having seduced and then beheaded him with his own sword. Appropriately, she is "dressed to kill" and wears an elaborate contemporary costume that would have appealed to Cranach’s courtly patrons. The painter and his workshop produced several versions of this successful compos...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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