Striking pictorial works demonstrate the importance, and beauty, of textiles across cultures and time.

A record-breaking exhibition in Rome celebrates an artist who refused to live in the shadow of Leonardo, Michelangelo and ...

With only about 60 paintings by Caravaggio known to exist, curators are right to call it one of the most ambitious shows of ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been ...

One of the most powerful, iconic, and bold paintings by Caravaggio is this one. It shows the moment when Judith killed Holofernes, an Assyrian general, to avenge honour. This painting seems so ...

History paintings were the highest order ... have just slaughtered Holofernes and now must escape. Judith’s pose suggests they’ve heard someone or something. “Wait,” her brightly lit ...

One of Artemisia’s greatest paintings, “Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes” (completed in the sixteen-twenties, and now owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts), offers a ...

The Renaissance was an advancement in art, literature ... Florence, is Donatello's Judith and Holofernes sculpture. The sculpture, another beautiful piece from the Renaissance period, depicts ...

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 ...

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 ...

I can’t help but think of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Judith Slaying Holofernes every time I hear about a new case of abuse. With many art historians suggesting that Gentileschi ...