Rembrandt van Rijn’s magisterial painting in the Louvre of “Bathsheba at Her Bath” (1654) is the last of the Dutch painter’s female nudes and his most moving depiction of the seductive biblical ...

Cornelius van Harlaam, “Bathsheba at her toilet” (1594) (all images courtesy the Rijksmuseum) If you’re browsing the digital collection of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, you might come across a 1594 ...

A 16th Century Italian painting showing a naked Bathsheba bathing under the prying eye of King David had no sooner been hung on a wall of the Wadsworth Atheneum than an argument broke out over who ...

When I was a teenager, a speaker at a youth camp once told us the story of David and Bathsheba (see 2 Samuel 11). The speaker described that David was standing on his roof and Bathsheba was bathing on ...

About thirty years ago, Shimon Peres once said something to the effect that not everything King David did was good. This kicked off a feeding frenzy amongst the rabbis who started to explain that ...

On a fine spring evening in the ancient Near East, a king took a stroll on the roof of his palace. Surveying his capital city, he caught sight of a woman purifying herself in a ritual religious bath.

The biblical story of David and Bathsheba is as dramatic as it is ambiguous: A powerful man sees a beautiful stranger and summons her. She becomes pregnant. The man clumsily tries to cover it up, but ...

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A beefy beauty has been shamelessly displaying all her ample, fleshy attributes in the hallowed hallways of Hartford’s stately Wadsworth Atheneum for almost three months. But no one — neither the tens ...