But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the way through to the Romantic era. It’s just that their work was often overlooked or outright ignored. That’s changing ...

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...

In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes ...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen Medieval women’s lives were ...

New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into ...

A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

The collagist layers contemporary couture atop portraits of real Renaissance women to create digital art that contradicts today’s social media-centric consumerist model. In Worrall’s world of ...

Kendi, that celebrates the power of Black art ‘We Have a Right to Speak.’ Watch Brit Bennett, Jasmine Guillory and Jacqueline Woodson Discuss the Shift of Power Toward Black Women Writers ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.