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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As global resistance to frontline malaria treatments rises, Tanzania is taking a leading role by hosting the inaugural International Symposium on Artemisia ...

The bare-chested woman holds a dagger to her bosom. Her sorrowful face, cast in shadows, looks heavenward. The painting, titled “Lucretia” in honor of the Roman heroine who killed herself after being ...