Judith is a person who is famous for beheading Holofernes before a battle. There are many different depictions of the beheading of Holofernes. Some have loads of blood, some don’t have blood, some are paintings, and some are sculptures like this. In my opinion it looks like that one person on Black Friday that acts like it is world war 3.
This is made of terracotta like the flower pots. It is glazed. There is glazed terracotta in Minecraft too but it’s not very popular because it’s kind of useless and kind of ugly. It is also hard to make in Minecraft. You get it from the ground in a river, then you put 4 together to make the blocks, then you put it in the furnace and cook it. To glaze it you have to add other things to it. That’s a lot of work for Minecraft.
This sculpture would take a lot of work since it’s painted very precisely. They even went under the sculpture to paint the red on Holofernes’ head where it was sliced off his neck. This glazed terracotta is much better than the glazed terracotta in Minecraft.
The Facts:
- Giovanni della Robbia (Florence, Italy, 1469-1529?)
- Italian
- about 1520
- Material: Glazed terracotta
- Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of Delia Spencer Field (46.839)
- Not currently on view due to renovations
Museums with Mina 