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David, bronze sculpture by Donatello, early 15th century; in the Bargello Museum, Florence.
Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes is a bronze sculpture.1
It is important to distinguish this work from the similarly titled oil painting Judith Beheading Holofernes by the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, which depicts the same biblical subject but in a different medium and historical period.2