May the odds be ever in your... Oh, never mind. She has this under control.

Judith was the proto-Katniss Everdeen. In the Old Testament Book of Judith, the eponymous Judith and her people face harsh times. There's a famine. An invading army of bad mother-shut-yo-mouth Assyrians, lead by General Holofernes, is besieging the Jewish town of Bethulia. A town at a mountain pass that, if conquered, will lead to the fall of Israel. The Jews are outnumbered. They're out of water. The town leaders have said that God needs to save them in a couple days or they're just going to surrender. Judith gets tired of all the "woe is me" crap. She shows Holofernes some leg (she was apparently quite the looker), got him drunk off her lady humps (and, true story, kept him thirsty by feeding him salted cheese), and then cut his damn head off. No Assyrians, no problem. Life went on and nothing bad ever happened again, anywhere, to anyone.

This is the only work Donatello signed his name to. He picked a good one, since this became one of his most famous and groundbreaking works. First of all, there's a lot of depictions of Judith offing Holofernes. One is even the unassuming label of a porcini and tomato pasta sauce (let this be a lesson learned for why the world needs art historians). Donatello's is the only version executed as a monument. It's one of the earliest freestanding statues from the Renaissance, also one of the first intended to be viewed from every angle. Though, unlike almost every other famous statue in the round, you don't get any good butt views. 

Despite the fact that Judith supposedly just made an indecent proposal, she's obviously got a conservative look going on. Holofernes, however, looks like he's been losing for hours at strip poker and beer pong simultaneously. But she didn't strip him down for the decapitation, he did that to himself. Between his nudity, drunkenness (which Donatello just nails), and the pillow, Holofernes seems like quite the lush. It's kind of hard to feel bad for the guy.

Cosimo de Medici contracted Donatello for this project. Cosimo wanted the statue to go with Donatello's equally-famous, hyper-nudey statue of David in the Medici palace garden. After the Medicis were exiled from Florence, the Republic moved the statue to a public venue and got rid of the inscriptions: "Kingdoms fall through luxury, cities rise through virtues. Behold the neck of pride severed by the hand of humility." The new populist government replaced Medici's poetic line with something a little more to the point: "An exemplar of the public good. The citizens installed it here in 1495." They could have just gone with, "Suck it Medici!"