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Judith Beheading Holofernes
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Caravaggio
Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio, recreated as a hand-painted oil on canvas that holds the brushwork and tenebrism of the original scene.
Description
Description
A widow stands over the bed of an enemy general, her sleeves pushed back, her grip locked on his hair as the blade cuts through his throat. The scene is the climax of the Book of Judith, and it held the attention of Caravaggio because nothing in it is distant or decorous: the struggle is close, physical, and lit like an event happening in the room with the viewer. This Judith Beheading Holofernes reproduction brings that same confrontation to a wall, in paint rather than in print.
About Judith Beheading Holofernes Reproduction
Judith grips Holofernes by the hair with one hand while the sword drives through his neck with the other, her arms braced against the resistance of his body. Holofernes twists against the white sheets, caught mid-spasm, blood arcing across the linen in two thin jets. Beside her, the elderly servant Abra leans in with a cloth ready for the head, her face fixed on the act rather than recoiling from it. Caravaggio builds the whole scene out of tenebrism: a hard, raking light falls across Judith, the body of Holofernes, and the folds of the sheet, while everything else collapses into near-total black. There is no landscape, no architecture, nothing to soften the moment or place it anywhere beyond the bed itself.
The picture belongs to the years around 1598 to 1599, when Caravaggio was working for private patrons in Rome, among them the Genoese banker Ottavio Costa, and pushing his figures toward this kind of unblinking physical realism. The flesh tones are built in warm, thinly layered strokes against the dark ground, so skin reads as lit from within rather than merely illuminated. Blood, linen, and hair are handled with the same directness, each rendered in a few decisive passages of paint rather than smoothed into illustration.
The hand-painted reproduction
Reproducing a canvas built this heavily on contrast asks for a painter who understands where the light should stop, not just where it should start. Our artists work in oil on canvas by hand, matching the palette stroke by stroke and holding the brushwork and surface texture of the original rather than flattening it into a uniform print. The result is a fine art reproduction built up in real layers of pigment, with the ridges and thin passages that a brush leaves and a printer cannot. Viewed closely, the surface shows the same variation in paint thickness that a trained eye would look for in a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, rather than the flat, even sheen of a printed canvas.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas, worked entirely by brush
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it is going on
- Gallery-ready presentation, finished for display straight out of the box
- Certificate of authenticity included with every canvas
- 90 day returns, with a full refund or a free replacement and no restocking fee
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Artwork guide
The story behind Judith Beheading Holofernes
Explore the painting’s history, composition and meaning in the ByMuseum art guide.
Read the history and meaning of Judith Beheading HolofernesPRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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