Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (ca. 1598–1599 or 1602). Collection of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

Meet the Biblical heroine who beheaded a Babylonian to save her people Using her brains and looks, the widow Judith infiltrated Nebuchadrezzars's army and slayed its commander, Holofernes.

These comprise not only “Judith Slaying Holofernes,” but also the “Susanna and the Elders” — her earliest work — and the nuanced “Self-Portrait as a Lute Player,” with echoes of Rembrandt. “Judith and ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s 1599 painting “Judith and Holofernes” comes to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and to the United States, for the first time.

Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes displays the power of women’s solidarity in action. The painter positions the heroines on top of the Syrian general, straddling him in a clear role reversal.

On Thursday, the art dealer Eric Turquin unveiled a spectacularly well-preserved 17th-century canvas of “Judith and Holofernes” that Marc Labarbe, an auctioneer based in Toulouse, France ...

Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith and Holofernes" (c. 1612-17) and Kehinde Wiley's "Judith and Holofernes" (2012) are on view in the Caroline Weiss Law Building grand lobby near Cullinan Hall.

Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1620. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, inv. 1567.

This visitor, Kehinde Wiley’s Judith and Holofernes (2012), is here as half of a two-painting special exhibition, “ Slay: Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley,” on view through October 9.