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 ...
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 ...
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 12; 1 and 6 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 15. No concerts Friday or Saturday. In the latter days of the Renaissance, the daring Italian painter Caravaggio painted a dark and violent ...
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 ...
14 x 26.7 cm. (5.5 x 10.5 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...
Noguchi, Isamu, "The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum), 1987. Grove, Nancy & Diane Botnick, "The Sculpture ...
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.
"Then Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look at this present upon the work of mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. For now is the time to help thy ...