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 ...
MFAH exhibit shows Judith now and 400 years ago by Obama portrait artist and baroque Italian painter
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, ...
Flung its red spray against the cliffs and spurs, But left the valley in cool shadow still. And still the mist above the Asshur camp Hung in white folds, and on the pendent boughs The white dew hung.
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 ...
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.
Kamel Mennour Gallery highlights the enduring power of chiaroscuro by pairing a long-lost Caravaggio masterpiece with a shimmering site-specific installation by conceptual artist Daniel Buren.
A period drama replete with danger, subterfuge and seduction — it’s hard to think of a more operatic plot than the tale of Judith and Holofernes. The story comes from the book of Judith, a text within ...
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.
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 6 (Sale info: TO BE AUCTIONED). "From the original of riedel, in the old Pinacothek, Munich." [P. 3.] Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings by Celebrated ...
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