Nothing ruins your summer like a swarm of wasps around your home. Luckily, essential oils derived from one genus of plants ...

Between now and April, visitors to Florence’s Casa Buonarroti, the house museum of Italian Renaissance great Michelangelo, are in for a treat. They can watch a team of experts as they work to restore ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes is not a painting easily forgotten. Today, the dramatic scene is among the most well-known images of the Baroque era and most art lovers are at ...

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard Mary Garrard’s compelling new book Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe was supposed to publish on May ...

In 1638, the wife of England's King Charles I, Henrietta Maria, commissioned a painting from Italian artist Artemisia ...

Artemisia Gentileschi by Sheila Barker, director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the Medici at the Medici Archive Project, is the second book in the monographic ...

Art restorers have embarked on a project to digitally unveil what was once a nude painting by Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most prominent female artists from the period.

Artemisia annua is the only known plant source of potent antimalarial artemisinins, and its chemotypes are classified as low- and high-artemisinin producing (LAP and HAP). However, the different ...

Plague swept through Italy’s southern Mediterranean coast in 1656, ravaging towns and villages in the kingdom of Naples. The devastation was epic, piling up corpses over the course of nearly two years ...

The story of Susanna and the Elders, related in the Book of Daniel, was a popular subject for artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and no wonder. Susanna, a virtuous, beautiful young ...