Miniscule mugwort flowers are this extremely invasive plant’s last—and very effective—hurrah before frost arrives and turns ...

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 ...

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The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of an extract of the Artemisia vulgaris L. (mugwort) on the labeling of blood constituents with technetium-99m (99mTc). Blood samples from Wistar rats ...

The dramatic life story of Artemisia Gentileschi easily captures the imagination. This may be why many of her most famous paintings—including Judith Slaying Holofernes and Jael and Sisera—are those in ...

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 ...

Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi—specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of her ...

Conservator Adelaide Izat works on Susanna and the Elders, a painting newly reattributed to Artemisia Gentileschi. Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King ...