Caravaggio, Judith and Holofernes, 1602 ca., oil on canvas, 145 × 195 cm. Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica 

 
Caravaggio's Judith is a "capital" work in many senses. It embodies, one could even say literally, not only an idea of art, style and painting, but also, and perhaps more so, a time and a place, or rather an environment and an era. In the collective and shared imagination, the image of Caravaggio, and of Judith in an eminent way, is the very image of Rome in the 1600s, at the turn of two centuries. And the city of Caravaggio, not surprisingly, has the same physiognomy and the same personality as the painter, or his work, made up of exasperated contrasts: sacred and profane, devout and irreverent, mystical and violent, refined and popular, passionate and brilliant. It is in this game of mirrors that the figures of our past, of the values of our heritage, of our cultural capital take shape and survive.
 

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