For at least 20 years, Nicholas Poussin’s Death of Germanicus (1627), a prized painting in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), has been on the “do not loan” list. But when the ...

An unlikely art-historical find could make waves at auction this summer when a painting that experts claim is the long-lost second version of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (circa 1607) hits ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some poems are remembered by a single line. Paintings don't come to bits so easily, and there are no dictionaries of famous pictorial quotations. But the same thing can be true. With certain pictures, ...

Even as we admire the overwhelming virtuosity of this 17th-century masterpiece, and luxuriate in the sheer magnificence of its painted surfaces – the warmth and fullness of those flesh tones, for ...