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Description: | Signed: yes Description: In a plain interior, with trees, castles and a town visible through a rectangular opening to the left, the half-length figure of a young woman (Judith). She is seen from the left, but looks out at the viewer. She is dressed in a high-necked outer garment of a vibrant orange-red colour, with deep green trimmings; the orange bodice of her dress is slashed and edged with transparent material to the upper neck; at her neck is a thick jewelled choker, a simple silver necklace below, and a necklace of linked hoops below that. Her hair is tied back in a net with applied seed-pearls; on her head she wears at a rakish angle a broad-rimmed red velvet hat, edged with white fronds and stuck with two long white ostrich feathers. With her left elbow she leans on a foreground parapet; in her right, gloved, hand she holds across her body a double-edged long-sword with a gilded hilt and pommel; the blade is smeared with blood. Before her, in the lower left corner of the composition is the (foreshortened) severed head of a bearded man (Holofernes); his eyes and mouth half open. | Subjects: | religion (Judith; Holofernes) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cranach, Lucas, the elder (German painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1472-1553) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8753... | Go to resource |
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