Tucked away on the third floor of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a gruesome scene is playing out. A depiction of a woman beheading a man is the subject of famous Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi ...

Few may know of the Old Testament Book of Judith, whose titular protagonist uses beauty, charm and unflinching courage to save Israel from oppression. Judith, a Jewish widow, dressed in her finest ...

Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi and contemporary American painter Kehinde Wiley created their visions of the story of Judith and Holofernes four centuries apart. Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" (1639 or 1640) (photo by Børre Høstland, all images courtesy the National Museum) Almost 400 years after her death, ...

There’s no way of getting around the violence in the noteworthy, but often neglected, Hanukkah-related story of Judith and Holofernes. Judith’s heroic action, the political assassination of the ...

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 story of ...

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. In ...

133.7 x 98.7 cm. (52.6 x 38.9 in.) Commissioned by Giovan Carlo Doria (1576-1625), Genoa (1617 - 1621 inv. no. 401); Thence by descent to his son, Agostino Doria (d. 1644), Genoa (1625 - 1641 inv. no.

With his rendering of President Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley became the first African American to ever paint an official presidential portrait, but the new-found fame has also drawn attention to some ...

The two paintings, by Kehinde Wiley and Artemisia Gentileschi, were made hundreds of years apart. But they have more in common than you might think. Artemesia Gentileschi made hers in the 1610s.

With his rendering of President Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley became the first African American to ever paint an official presidential portrait, but the new-found fame has also drawn attention to some ...