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title: GIUDITTA AND OLOFERNE

subject date: 2004-10-25

caption: Tiziano VECELLIO (1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) ''Judith with the head of Holofernes'', episode of the Catholic Bible in which the rich, comely and chaste widow Judith deceives the general Holofernes, besieging the Jewish city of Betulia, and after having flattered him, he beheads him while he is hopelessly drunk, freeing his city which would otherwise have had to surrender to the enemy. Oil painting on canvas, Italy circa 1570.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 54064

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XVI

image epoch: Rinascimento

licence: RM

subject century: VI a.C.

subject epoch: Antico Testamento

technique: Dipinto

id: 6949

file name: FSNgilardi_54064.jpg

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