The culture clash that underpinned Cranach’s art – German courtly splendour and strait-laced religious reformation – powers a magnetic imagining of Jewish heroine Judith displaying the head of Assyrian general Holofernes. Lucas Cranach the Elder – Judith With the Head of Holofernes Photograph: Peter Cavanagh/Alamy Scotlandġ.
Judith With the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach.
