Curator's pairings
Distance / force First thought / revision Aftermath / action Darkness / gold Beauty / danger Work A Leber Group workshop — c. 1230–1240 Unknown illuminator, southern France — c. 1275–1300 Unknown Italian illuminator — c. 1370–1390 Donatello — c. 1457–1464 Sandro Botticelli — c. 1470–1475 Andrea Mantegna or follower (possibly Giulio Campagnola) — c. 1495–1500 Girolamo Mocetto, after Andrea Mantegna — c. 1500–1505 Barthel Beham — 1525 Lucas Cranach the Elder — c. 1530 Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck — 1551 Paolo Veronese — c. 1580 Hendrik Goltzius, after Bartholomaeus Spranger — c. 1586–1587 Caravaggio — c. 1599–1600 (dating debated; 1602 also proposed) Cornelis Galle I, after Peter Paul Rubens — c. 1610 Cristofano Allori — 1610–1612 Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1612–1613 Antiveduto Gramatica — 1610s Rembrandt van Rijn — 1634 Abraham Bosse — 1645 Unknown Polish maker — early 19th century Francisco de Goya — 1820–1823 John Rogers Herbert — 1863 Gustav Klimt — 1901 Unknown weavers, South Netherlandish — c. 1455–1465 Michelangelo Buonarroti — c. 1509 Jan Sanders van Hemessen — 1535–1545 Unknown German carver — c. 1570 Titian — c. 1570 Attributed to Lavinia Fontana — 1590–1595 Fede Galizia — 1601 Orazio Gentileschi, possibly with Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1608–1612 Johann Liss — mid-to-late 1620s Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1623–1625 Trophime Bigot — c. 1640 Massimo Stanzione — c. 1640 Muhammad Zaman — c. 1680 Ubaldo Gandolfi — 18th century Unknown French sculptor — mid-1800s Benjamin-Constant — possibly c. 1886 Sandro Botticelli — c. 1470–1475 Giorgione — c. 1504 Virginia da Vezzi — c. 1624–1626 Michaelina Wautier — c. 1650 Circle of Elisabetta and Giovanni Andrea Sirani — mid-17th century (Walters displays 1638–1665) Pedro Américo — 1880 Gustav Klimt — 1909 Rembrandt Peale, after Cristofano Allori — 1830 Unidentified Novohispanic artist — 18th century Angelo Agostini — 1884 Oscar Pereira da Silva, after Pedro Américo — date unknown Robert Barnes — 1958 Chaim Gross — c. 1960 Roger Medearis — 1968 Peter Minchell — 1973 Komar and Melamid — 1993 Cindy Sherman — 1990 Tina Blondell — 1999 Kehinde Wiley — 2012 Nigel Brown — 1982 Nigel Brown — 1982 Lisa Sharp — 2016 Tomislav Nikolic — 2014–2017 Kannika Jansuwan — 2021 versus Work B Leber Group workshop — c. 1230–1240 Unknown illuminator, southern France — c. 1275–1300 Unknown Italian illuminator — c. 1370–1390 Donatello — c. 1457–1464 Sandro Botticelli — c. 1470–1475 Andrea Mantegna or follower (possibly Giulio Campagnola) — c. 1495–1500 Girolamo Mocetto, after Andrea Mantegna — c. 1500–1505 Barthel Beham — 1525 Lucas Cranach the Elder — c. 1530 Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck — 1551 Paolo Veronese — c. 1580 Hendrik Goltzius, after Bartholomaeus Spranger — c. 1586–1587 Cornelis Galle I, after Peter Paul Rubens — c. 1610 Cristofano Allori — 1610–1612 Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1612–1613 Antiveduto Gramatica — 1610s Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1620 Rembrandt van Rijn — 1634 Abraham Bosse — 1645 Unknown Polish maker — early 19th century Francisco de Goya — 1820–1823 John Rogers Herbert — 1863 Gustav Klimt — 1901 Unknown weavers, South Netherlandish — c. 1455–1465 Michelangelo Buonarroti — c. 1509 Jan Sanders van Hemessen — 1535–1545 Unknown German carver — c. 1570 Titian — c. 1570 Attributed to Lavinia Fontana — 1590–1595 Fede Galizia — 1601 Orazio Gentileschi, possibly with Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1608–1612 Johann Liss — mid-to-late 1620s Artemisia Gentileschi — c. 1623–1625 Trophime Bigot — c. 1640 Massimo Stanzione — c. 1640 Muhammad Zaman — c. 1680 Ubaldo Gandolfi — 18th century Unknown French sculptor — mid-1800s Benjamin-Constant — possibly c. 1886 Sandro Botticelli — c. 1470–1475 Giorgione — c. 1504 Virginia da Vezzi — c. 1624–1626 Michaelina Wautier — c. 1650 Circle of Elisabetta and Giovanni Andrea Sirani — mid-17th century (Walters displays 1638–1665) Pedro Américo — 1880 Gustav Klimt — 1909 Rembrandt Peale, after Cristofano Allori — 1830 Unidentified Novohispanic artist — 18th century Angelo Agostini — 1884 Oscar Pereira da Silva, after Pedro Américo — date unknown Robert Barnes — 1958 Chaim Gross — c. 1960 Roger Medearis — 1968 Peter Minchell — 1973 Komar and Melamid — 1993 Cindy Sherman — 1990 Tina Blondell — 1999 Kehinde Wiley — 2012 Nigel Brown — 1982 Nigel Brown — 1982 Lisa Sharp — 2016 Tomislav Nikolic — 2014–2017 Kannika Jansuwan — 2021
A CaravaggioJudith Beheading Holofernes B Artemisia GentileschiJudith Slaying Holofernes A zoom B zoom
A — curatorial key
The act A hard beam isolates three heads and three pairs of arms, all at least partly visible. Judith's recoil meets the forward labor of her hands; Holofernes surges toward us while the maid waits with the sack.
B — curatorial key
The act Yellow and crimson sleeves divide the dark. Judith's stable arms and her maid's vertical pressure meet Holofernes's resistance; blood records the sword's direction.
