1903 Print Botticelli Art Holofernes Beheaded Body Murder Hebrew Jewish XAF1 Still Life Black & White / Greyscale

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Wonderfully preserved for well over a century

" outside the palace at Carchemish (now called Karkamis)

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1903 Print Botticelli Art Holofernes Beheaded Body Murder Hebrew Jewish XAF1 Still Life Black & White / GreyscaleThis is an original 1903 halftone print of a painting titled, "Discovery of the Body of Holofernes." The original artwork had been held at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The coastal invading general Holofernes was the object of great revenge after he forced the Jewish people of the conquered lands to solely worship the god Nebuchadnezzar. One evening, the Hebrew widow Judith rescued the captive Bethulia from Holofernes' camp after seducing and