For at least 20 years, Nicholas Poussin’s Death of Germanicus (1627), a prized painting ... her sword; a terracotta sculpture (1750) by Ignazio Collino (1706-1787) of Judith holding Holofernes ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes ... to read Judith’s sword at the dead center of the canvas as a Christian cross. Gentileschi’s latter beheading painting has one big ...

“Slay,” the dramatic exhibition that opened at the Kimbell Art Museum ... to hold down Holofernes on the bed. Judith grimaces, and her muscles strain as she draws the sword through his flesh.

He fell for the ruse and invited Judith to dinner, where she and maidservant Abra plied him with wine. Once Holofernes fell asleep, the women beheaded him with his own sword. The Assyrians fled ...

The paintings depict the biblical story of Judith ... Assyrian general Holofernes into believing she wants to help him defeat the Israelites, then beheading him with his own sword.

The painting is Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes and is estimated to have ... Next, learn about the 12th-century samurai sword that was also found in an attic. And then, read about how NASA ...

Scholars are divided about whether a painting found ... at the face of Judith, challenging the viewer with her gaze as she coolly decapitates Holofernes with his own sword.

Gentileschi’s painting is muscular: The biblical Judith and her maidservant bear down on their victim, the invading Assyrian general Holofernes, as Judith saws at his neck with a sword.

Gentileschi’s painting is muscular: The biblical Judith and her maidservant bear down on their victim, the invading Assyrian general Holofernes, as Judith saws at his neck with a sword.