Gallery label
Eight years after Judith I, beauty has become angular, restless, and almost predatory—and the alternate title ‘Salome’ exposes the identities viewers keep collapsing.
Look closely
The body twists inside a narrow vertical field. Hands become claws, pattern fragments the silhouette, and the head nearly dissolves into the lower border.
Why this Judith matters
The pair prevents a single ‘Klimt Judith’ from standing for modernity. Revision, misnaming, and the Judith–Salome confusion are part of the object tradition itself.
Sources for this record:Ca’ Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art record ↗Natter, Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings ↗
“Eight years after Judith I, beauty has become angular, restless, and almost predatory—and the alternate title ‘Salome’ exposes the identities viewers keep collapsing.”
Narrative index
Primary catalogue placement: display of the head, Judith 13:14–16. The index organizes comparison; it does not claim that every visual detail comes from those verses or that the work touches only one episode.
