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 holds up his lantern so that the light falls directly on the face which the false disciple is about to kiss, all the surroundings being wrapped in mysterious shadows. Salon of 1853.

JUDAS, PAYMENT OF, Fra Angelico, Florence Academy. One of the series of eight panels, containing thirty-five subjects from the life of Christ, formerly on the presses in SS. Annunziata, Florence. Judas receives the money from the high-priest in foreground; in background, six other figures. Kugler (Eastlake), i. 182; Réveil, xiii. 901.

JUDGMENT, LAST. See Last Judgment.

JUDGMENT OF PARIS. See Paris.

JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON. See Solomon.

Judith, Cristofano Allori, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

JUDITH, Cristofano Allori, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 4 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. 8 in. Scene from apocryphal book of Judith. Judith, with the head of Holofernes in one hand and a sword in the other; behind her a servant. Judith is said to represent La Mazzafirra, a beautiful Florentine courtesan who had deserted Allori for a richer lover, the servant, her mother, and the severed head the painter, who thus sought to revenge himself. Allori's masterpiece. Painted for Cardinal Alessandro Orsino. Carried to Paris in 1799; returned in 1815. Several repetitions, best in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg; another in Vienna Museum; study for head of Judith in Rath Museum, Geneva. Engraved by Tardieu; M. Gandolfi; Gio. Cantini; L. A. Claessens; J. Carter; Jazet; J. L. Leronge, and others.—Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. Pl. 3; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Filhol, v. Pl. 319; Lasinio, i. Pl. 56; Landon, Musée, vi. Pl. 59; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 509; Larousse, ix. 1071.

Judith, Philip van Dyck, Hague Museum.

By Philip van Dyck, Hague Museum; wood, H. 11 in. × 12 in.; signed, dated 1726. Figures half-length. Judith, leaning with her right hand on the sword with which she has slain Holofernes, is about to put his head, held in her left hand, into a sack presented by her attendant, an old woman, at left. Passed from Palace of Leeuwarden to cabinet of William V.; carried to Paris by the French. Engraved by C. Normand; H. Guttenberg, in Musée Napoléon.—Landon, Musée, viii. 14.

By Andrea Mantegna, Berlin Museum; wood, H. 16 in. × 11 in.; tempera, dated 1488. Judith, standing, followed by her servant bearing head of Holofernes in a charger upon her head. Formerly in Giusti