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Keith Christiansen

Keith Christiansen is Chairman of the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Beneath the Surface

By Keith Christiansen

Question: if you don’t know how a picture was painted, how is it possible to give it an attribution?

Caravaggio, <em>Judith Beheading Holofernes</em>, c. 1598-1599, oil on canvas, 57 x 77 inches. In the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
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