Judith Beheading Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620
Why it's great
Two women work together to cut off the head of an enemy general in a dark tent, with blood in the sheets. Artemisia Gentileschi painted it in about 1620, and this second version is bigger and more dramatic than her first.
Where to see it
📍 Uffizi GalleryFlorence, Italy
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Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter born in Rome in 1593, the daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi. She was one of the first women to become a successful professional painter in Europe, and her powerful pictures often show strong women from the Bible and myths. She died in Naples in about 1653.
