The “Mona Lisa,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artworks in ...

But there were women ... in paintings by men. A man might have painted a woman with an idealized eye, if that makes sense. Fede Galizia did this well, and she has one of the most stunning pictures ...

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.