Judith (Giorgione) Judith is a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, executed around 1504. It is one of the few authentic works by Giorgione owned by the Russian Hermitage Museum.[1] The painting, originally attributed to Raphael, came to the Hermitage in 1772 from Paris.[1] Like many other paintings, it refers to the Judith and Holofernes motif. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her city, Bethulia. With this act, she saves nearby Jerusalem from total destruction.