Judith and the Head of Holofernes 1901 Gustav Klimt 1862 – 1918 Austrian symbolist painter of the Vienna Secession movement Austria ( It depicts the biblical character of Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes. )

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Judith meets and bowls over the enemy general Holofernes. He plans to seduce her, but she turns the tables on waits until he is drunk and sleeping, then she kills him by hacking off his head as he lies in a drunken stupor.

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