# Judith [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANTEGNA, Andrea]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Drawing, 388 x 258 mm ## Commentary During the Renaissance, the great biblical figures were also counted among the heroes and heroines of antiquity. Judith, the pious and beautiful widow from the besieged town of Bethulia, an outpost of Jerusalem, saved the city by outwitting Holofernes, Nebuchadnezzar's military commander. Having charmed him and made him drunk, she cut off his head. The leaderless Assyrians fled when they saw the bloody head hanging on the city walls the next morning. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Bacchanalia with a Wine Vat]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Battle of the Sea Gods]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()