Klimt, Judith II Salomé

Title: Klimt, Judith II Salomé
Rights: Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Public Domain.
Creator: Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Date: 1909
Description: Between two vertical gold bars, a woman with black hair is turned away from the viewer. The woman, Judith, has her bare breasts exposed, a blue gown falling off of her shoulders. In true Klimt fashion, the gown is made of a plethora of different colored shapes of pink, red, white, black, yellow. The background is painted a rich rust color with gold swirls to the right of Judith’s bracelet-adorned hands. Whilst Judith is turned away from the viewer, in her left hand in a black bag with embellishments of red and yellow she is holding the severed head of the Assyrian general Holofernes by his light brown hair; his eyes are closed, skin grey and pallid, yet he is frontally faced.
Format: Painting. Oil on canvas. 178 x 46 cm
Publisher: Ronald Klip, artbible.info
Contributor: Abigail P.
Subject: Biblical story; biblical scene; Art Nouveau; Modern art; Klimt; Judith; Holofernes; decapitation.
Source: Jpeg file. Unknown photographer. Ca' Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna Digital Collection. https://www.artbible.info/art/large/781.html, 3/7/2020.