Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes is not a painting easily forgotten. Today, the dramatic scene is among the most well-known images of the Baroque era and most art lovers are at ...

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, ...

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 ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. The story of ...