Painting ID:: 58191
Judith with the Head of Holofernes Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613)
Oil on canvas, 139 x 116 cm.
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
Painting ID:: 58922
Judith with the Head of Holofernes Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1596). The figure of Judith is believed to be a self-portrait.
Painting ID:: 62382
Judith with the Head of Holofernes 61,3 x 48 cm Berkeley Art Museum, University of California Cavaliere d'Arpino's (Giulio Cesari's) Judith with the Head of Holofernes symbolically alludes to the violent decapitation of the Assyrian general without showing the gruesome moment that both Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi chose to depict. Instead a beautiful, almost demure, Judith raises Holofernes' head by his locks as her maidservant Abra looks on in puzzled reverence. Cavaliere d'Arpino's Judith is the embodiment of female virtue and moral perfection, an ideal heroine who has redeemed her people. Yet, at the same time, she seems capable of exercising her seductive powers directly upon the viewer, as if the beholder were Holofernes. She is in possession of two dangerous weapons, her sword and her sexual allure. In 1602-03 Cavaliere d'Arpino had frescoed a series of Old Testament heroines in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati. There he depicted Judith as a full-length figure striding across the plain in front of the enemy encampment while Abra follows behind stuffing Holofernes' head into a sack. Topologically the figures are very similar, but in the easel painting Cavaliere d'Arpino condensed the composition so that the picture essentially becomes an idealised 'portrait' of Judith. In this sense it is very close to his Diana (Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome), in which the huntress is also reduced to a half-length idealised figure. In both these 'portraits' there is an emphasis on the decorative effects of colour and design. The brilliant reds, blues and whites of Judith's costume serve as a foil for the carefully delineated jewels and golden sword hilt. Baglione emphasised that Cavaliere d'Arpino was capable of working in two different styles, one of which was far more superficial than the other. It is likely that the more Rome 1568-1640
Painting ID:: 79476
Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1620(1620)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Width: 116 cm (45.7 in). Height: 139 cm (54.7 in).
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Painting ID:: 96640
Judith with the head of Holofernes oil on canvas
Dimensions 115 X 125 cm
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Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614-1669), was a Dutch Golden Age painterAccording to Houbraken, Joost van den Vondel made a poem about him.
According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1646 and worked on the city hall of Nijmegen and the Amsterdam City Hall.
Judith with the head of Holofernes oil on canvas
Dimensions 115 X 125 cm
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