Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio1602
Judith Beheading Holofernes
The young widow of Bethulia saws through the Assyrian general's neck while her servant waits with the sack. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.
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About Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1571–1610 · Italian
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a Lombard painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily whose radical chiaroscuro and street-modeled saints reshaped European religious painting. Between the Contarelli Matthew cycle (1599–1602) and his final canvases sent from Naples in 1610, he produced roughly thirty canonical biblical works.