Judith Beheading Holofernes

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Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of the biblical episode by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio, painted in c. 1599 – 1600 or 1602, in which the widow Judith stayed with the Assyrian general Holofernes in his tent after a banquet then decapitated him after he passed out drunk.

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Image: Caravaggio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.