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| Keywords: Elisabetta Sirani - Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Walters 37253.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749466 Creator Elisabetta Sirani after According to the Book of Judith the Jewish widow Judith saved the Israelites from the Assyrians by decapitating their general Holofernes whose army had besieged her city She did this after having made him drunk at a banquet Judith is commonly depicted as being assisted by an older maidservant in placing the head in a sack The contrast between Holofernes's crude features and the heroine's beauty underlines the moral message of the eventual triumph of virtue over evil The Bolognese painter Elisabetta Sirani based her style on that of Guido Reni 1575-1642 who was admired for his idealized depictions of women as in his Penitent Magdalene Walters 37 2631 Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 359 478-479 between 1638 1665 Baroque Oil on canvas Painted surface cm 129 5 91 7 accession number 37 253 9874 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 515 as Ferbis Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 Old Mistresses Women Artists of the Past The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1972 place of origin Bologna Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Elisabetta Sirani Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings of Judith with the head of Holofernes Females in art in three-quarter views Women hands 17th-century religious paintings in the United States 17th-century oil on canvas paintings in the United States | ||||
