The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes
Painting by Sandro Botticelli / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes (Italian: Scoperta del cadavere di Oloferne), also titled The Finding of the Dead Holofernes, is an early painting by Sandro Botticelli, dated to about 1472.
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Year | 1470 |
Dimensions | 31 cm (12 in) × 24 cm (9.4 in) |
Location | Uffizi, Italy |
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This small-format tempera on panel, 31 × 24 cm (12 x 9.4 in), and its pendant, The Return of Judith to Bethulia, both housed at the Uffizi in Florence, illustrate related biblical episodes described in the deuterocanonical and apocryphal book of Judith: the assassination of the great Assyrian general Holofernes by a young and beautiful Jewish widow, Judith; and, in the second picture, Judith's triumphant return to Bethulia with the severed head.