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Holofernes was an Assyrian general present in the Book of Judith, known for his beheading by the Jewish widow Judith to protect her hometown from his destruction.[1]

During the Renaissance, painters chose to recreate and immortalize the story in several works of art. Of these, two paintings by the Italian Sandro Botticelli, The Return of Judith to Bethulia (1470) and The Discovery of the Murder of Holofernes (c. 1472) hung in the Torre Grossa.[2]

Gallery

  • The Return of Judith to Bethulia by Sandro Botticelli
    The Return of Judith to Bethulia by Sandro Botticelli
  • The Discovery of the Murder of Holofernes by Sandro Botticelli
    The Discovery of the Murder of Holofernes by Sandro Botticelli

Appearances

References

  1. ↑ Judith beheading Holofernes on Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Torre Grossa's Secret
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