Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes 1608-1609 by Orazio Gentileschi 1563-1639 Pisa Italian, Italy,

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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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