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 ...

It’s not often that a scientific name is prettier than a common one, but in the cases of felon herb, wormwood and mugwort, 18th century botanists improved the ring when they renamed the plants after ...

Meanwhile, the St. Mary Magdalen fragment surfaced from the cellar of a private German collection in 2011, according to the lot. No one knows who cut its face out or why. Dorotheum reckons it happened ...

In Blood Water Paint, author Joy McCullough tells a tragic yet empowering tale about Artemisia Gentileschi, the 17th-century Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi has gone down in history not only as ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

It’s an old story—men preying on girls and young women. Today, as women come forward to expose sexual predation, Artemisia Gentileschi stands as a perfect symbol. She stands as a figurehead for ...

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.