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 ...

The surprising history behind Artemisia Gentileschi's recently reattributed Hercules and Omphale, and how it redefines gender ...

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 1616, the 22-year-old artist Artemisia Gentileschi painted a nude woman perched in the clouds and holding a compass at the Florence home of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, Michaelangelo's ...

The painting once enjoyed pride of place, hanging in a queen's chambers. Then centuries of varnish, overpaint and dirt obscured not only the work but also its artist. The layers of history have now ...

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 ...

Artemisia abrotanum, or Southernwood, is a perennial plant used as a medicinal herb throughout history. With citrusy sweet-smelling foliage, it is ideal to grow in the ground or pots to add beauty, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Artemisia’s darkest moment was in May 1611, two months before her eighteenth birthday, when she was raped by one ...

Holofernes’ head is upside down. his face writhes in agony. Judith drives her knee into his rib cage as he fights wildly, pushing his fist against her maidservant’s breastbone. As Judith slices ...

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.

The artemisia annua plant, also known as sweet wormwood, has long provided a key ingredient in treating malaria The World Health Organization (WHO) is to test a malaria drug on Covid patients, which ...