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 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 ...

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A new article led by Jacob Heil (Ph.D. candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior) and supervised by Leonora Bittleston (Biological Sciences) describes for the first time the fungal microbiome of ...

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 ...

The relative competitive abilities of Agropyron desertorum and Agropyron spicatum under rangeland conditions were compared using Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis transplants as indicator plants.

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Boise State EPSCoR GEM3 project, Genomics Lab and Greenhouse research on sagebrush, Sven Buerki, and Anthony Melton, photo by Priscilla Grover Biology associate professor Sven Buerki and his team’s ...