It took five years to examine and restore the 1607 Caravaggio painting before it was put up for auction. It is expected to fetch $170 million.
Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesFrench art historian Eric Turquin speaks next to a painting believed to be a second version of “Judith Beheading Holofernes” by Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
At the same time, Caravaggio expert Gianni Papi from the University of Florence believes that this work is a second copy of the original, created by the French artist and dealer Louis Finson, who worked with Caravaggio and lived in Naples in the early 17th century.
A 1607 letter addressed to the Duke of Mantua from a Flemish artist visiting Italy mentions that one of the two Caravaggio paintings on display
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