• David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio. It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
  • David has executed Goliath as an artist executes his painting but, in a further twist in Italian, a masterpiece is known as a capolavoro or, literally, head-work.
  • Against a dark background, David holds the decapitated head of Goliath, his sword and half-clothed body bathed in a sliver of light.
  • David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put the Philistine’s weapons in his own tent.
  • David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by Caravaggio, dated as early as 1605 and as late as 1609-1610.
  • Pierre Paul Puget was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the...
  • This gruesome scene is from the Old Testament story of David defeating the giant Goliath.
  • As David holds the head, he looks at it with a downcast expression that has been the subject of much conjecture.
  • 54 David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistine’s weapons in his own tent.
  • There is nothing to suggest the violent battle against the giant Goliath, nor the brutality of his beheading with the heavy sword.
  • 'In that head [Caravaggio] wished to portray himself and in the boy he portrayed his Caravaggino,' wrote Manilli in 1650.