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Judith beheading Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi
about 1612 - 1620
Oil on canvas, 199 x 162.5 cm
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
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| | | This motif is interpreted as symbolic revenge for a rape, that she suffered as a student of Master Agostino Tassi, and many humiliations during the trial versus Tassi. Some others interpret this picture in completely different way. They say that they were lovers who were involuntary divided by Artemisia’s father Orazio and that the trial was a farce.
She made two almost identical paintings of this motif which originate from the same period, when a trial versus Tassi took place (1612). The other one is in Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.
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