According to Filippo Baldinucci, one version of this scene depicts its artist’s mistress La Mazzarina in a bright golden dress; that painting of this scene includes a possible self-portrait by Cristofano Allori. A red curtain is draped over a painting of this scene that was rediscovered in 1950 and features an old woman tightly clutching a brown cloth. An artist’s father Orazio praised a painting of the aftermath of this scene in which one woman cups her hand around a candle as another stuffs a bag. The handmaid Alba helps hold down a man modeled on the convicted rapist Agostino Tassi in a 1620 depiction of this scene, one of seven produced by Artemisia Gentileschi. For 10 points, a gory spurt of blood appears in Caravaggio’s depiction of what scene of a biblical woman decapitating an Assyrian general? ■END■
ANSWER: Judith and Holofernes [or Judith beheading Holofernes; or Judith with the head of Holofernes; or other scenes describing Judith and Holofernes; prompt on Judith and her Maidservant by asking “what scene occurs right before that?”]
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