DONATELLO
(b. ca. 1386, Firenze, d. 1466, Firenze)

Judith and Holofernes (detail)

1455-60
Bronze
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

The three reliefs on the socle of the Judith and Holofernes group contain depictions of bacchanalian scenes that remind us of the night that has just passed, and the drunkenness and dissolute behaviour of the tyrant as described in the Bible.