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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This cover image released by Pegasus Books shows "Disobedient" by Elizabeth Fremantle. (Pegasus Books via AP) “Disobedient” by Elizabeth Fremantle (Pegasus Books) Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting ...

For centuries the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was a footnote to art history, known mainly for her savage canvas “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (1619-20), a work that some scholars saw ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" (1639 or 1640) (photo by Børre Høstland, all images courtesy the National Museum) Almost 400 years after her death, ...

Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon -— a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation. What if you put down your phone, turned away from your bedroom mirror ...

CANYON — “Artemisia” by Lauren Gunderson tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi — perhaps the most famous female painter of the 17th century, but whose name largely had been consigned to the dustbin ...