Giovanni Francesco Guerriri oil painting, Judith with Holofernes

This is an early 17^th century oil canvas painting by the Giovanni Francesco Guerriri (1589 to 1655, an Italian). This was year 1626. Guerrieri lived in Rome shortly where he did work for Marco Antonio Borghese. The beheading of Holofernes by the Judith has been given in details in the Old Testament in book of Judith. It has also been a subject to numerous paintings and the sculpture (Bible art Gallery).

Judith with the head of Holofernes

Judith was a beautiful and wealth young widow who was living in a hilltop town that was called Bethuliah. Judith undertook a very daring and a sexually ambiguous mission during the siege of their town so as to save her people from the annihilation. With her maid at her side, she went to the camp where Holofernes an Assyrian commander in chief of their enemies was living. Although he had a fearsome reputation, he was charmed by Judith. She then attempted him to get drunk and she took his sword from the bedpost where it was hanging and immediately she hacked his headed off as he was laying in a stupor (Bible art Gallery).

With the head wrapped in bed curtain, she returned to her own people in the Bethuliah. Holofernes head that was hung in towns ramparts caused panic and fear among Assyrians who fled away.

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