Judith with the head of Holofernes, which she places into a sack held by the figure behind her, she bears a sword in her outstretched right arm
Summary
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore)
Public domain scan of Italian 15th-16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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Date
1520 - 1539
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)