A depiction of a woman beheading a man is the subject of famous Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's "Judith and Holofernes," circa 1599. This is the first time the painting has ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes is not a painting easily forgotten. Today, the dramatic scene is among the most well-known images of the Baroque era and most art lovers are ...

The painting remained in the family until 1958. In return, the Minneapolis museum also got a gem. The Barberini is lending Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes (1599)—an equally important ...

Kehinde Wiley's 2012 version of Judith and Holofernes makes Judith a Black woman and Holofernes a white woman. The painting prompted outrage among some viewers when it debuted at the North ...

The painting is Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes and is estimated to have been created in 1607. It depicts the beheading of Assyrian General Holofernes by the beautiful widow Judith ...

In one shared gallery, contemporary portraitist Kehinde Wiley and Baroque-era painter Artemisia Gentileschi both depict the violent biblical story of Judith. The paintings depict the biblical ...

In one painting, a young woman kneels over a bed with a sword in her right hand. In her left hand, she claws at a man's hair, the blade at his throat, as blood cascades down the bed's white sheets.

"This is a sophisticated, provocative painting, and so is that," said Tinterow, gesturing first at Wiley's "Judith and Holofernes" before pointing to Gentileschi's version. "They're unified in ...

He sent a photo to the art appraiser Eric Turquin, based in Paris, and then he waited. Turquin had identified it as a lost work of the Italian master Caravaggio: “Judith and Holofernes ...