Caravaggio was famed for his ability to create paintings that accentuated the contrast between light and darkness, which plainly represent good and evil in many of his most famous works. In 1599, he completed one of his most notable pieces, Judith Beheading Holofernes, which the artist named Judith Beheading Holofernes. The picture is based on the Old Testament tale of Judith slaying the ...
A painting experts claim is a long-lost second version of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (circa 1607), discovered in a French attic in 2014, will not be hitting the auction block this week ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Caravaggio' painting entitled "Judith Beheading Holofernes", is presented to the press, at the Drouot auction house in Paris, ...
A painting thought to be a "lost masterpiece" by Italian painter Caravaggio has been bought two days before it was due to go under the hammer in France. "Judith and Holofernes", which was found under ...
Caravaggio, “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (circa 1607), (image courtesy Cabinet Turquin) Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction sold £12,663,250 (~$16,041,805) worth of art. Alex Katz‘s ...
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 ...
On Thursday, 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, found in the ...
A painting that a French family found in their attic while investigating a leaky roof may be a long-lost Caravaggio. A work some have attributed to Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio, “Judith ...