Judith

Judith

excepting onely a rose lying upon the hemme of the sheete

jade green - provide the chromatic structure of the painting

The blue leaves are the result of a chemical change over time

let him cast a stone at her

Sir Kenelm later wrote that this 'is the Master peece of all the excellent ones that ever Sir Anthony Vandike made

the girl opens an ambiguous kind of dialogue with the viewer

as if this figure (and the vision as a whole) were just a trick of the light

Annibale Carracci (the soldiers

The altarpiece was painted for Antonio and Girolamo Petrobelli for their chapel in the church of San Francesco at Lendinara near Rovigo

Carlo and Ubaldo

Brown proposes a date in the early 1660s

favoured naturalistic figures painted with rich