Judith Beheading Holofernes
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Judith takes the sword to Holofernes at the stroke itself, not after. What the maid holds open is a food bag. She had refused his table, 'lest sin come upon me,' eating what she carried; the sack that kept her clean of him now holds his head. The Kimbell reads the light down her arms as divine.
Its first owner, the banker Ottavio Costa, hung a silk curtain over it and forbade by will its sale or removal from the family. It surfaced only in the 1950s, discovered in an Italian family's collection. The curtain worked.
Sources: Kimbell Art Museum, 'Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes', loan from Palazzo Barberini, 2025-26 · Kimbell Art Museum, 'Guest of Honor: Kimbell Presents Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes' · Nova Vulgata, Liber Iudith 13:9-10 (Holy See) · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Judith 12:2 · Minneapolis Institute of Art, 'Last chance to see Caravaggio at Mia, though the story will remain' · Minneapolis Institute of Art, exhibition page, 'Caravaggio's Judith and Holofernes' · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Judith 12:19
And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body.
Judith 13:10 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
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