A depiction of a woman beheading a man is the subject of famous Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's "Judith ... Jewish people by cutting off Assyrian general Holofernes' head.

Artists have chosen one of two ways to depict the action: with Judith in mid-struggle, in the act of cutting (Donatello, Gentileschi), or triumphantly holding up the head of Holofernes after the ...