Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s 1599 painting “Judith and Holofernes” comes to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and to the United States, for the first time. It is on loan from the ...

"Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes' head, and took down his falchion from thence, and approached to his bed, and took hold of the hair of his head and said, Strengthen me ...

Judith, a widower, lives in a city under siege by the Assyrians. One night she steals out with her servant Abra, dressed in her finest, to murder the Assyrian general, Holofernes.

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 ...

Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1620. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, inv. 1567.

Called "Judith Beheading Holofernes," it depicts the biblical heroine Judith beheading an Assyrian general. It is thought to have been painted in Rome around 1604-05.

A larger version of Gentileschi's first "Judith Beheading Holofernes" is available here, while the second version can be seen larger here. 'Feel Art Again' appears every Tuesday and Thursday.

The paintings, both titled "Judith and Holofernes," were made exactly 400 years apart. A new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, called "Portrait of Courage," has paired the works to ...

Details of the possible Caravaggio painting “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (ca 1605–06, left) and the confirmed Caravaggio “The Crucifixion of St. Andrew” (ca 1607, right, via Wikimedia ...

The Whole on Exhibition, Friday, January 21st, at the Art Rooms, 817 Broadway. To be sold by auction Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, January 26th and 27th, Commencing at Eight o'clock. The Messrs.