"...the Jewish widow Judith saved the Israelites from the Assyrians by decapitating their general Holofernes, whose army had besieged her city. She did this after having made him drunk at a banquet... The contrast between Holofernes's crude features and the heroine's beauty underlines the moral message of the eventual triumph of virtue over evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabetta_Sirani#/media/File:Elisabetta_Sirani_-_Judith_with_the_Head_of_Holofernes_-_Walters_37253.jpg