Women frequently appeared as the subjects of Renaissance art, but they were also active behind the canvases. Women artists working during the Renaissance were in the minority and had to operate ...

This is a well-known convention, but the devil is in the details, as the saying goes. Renaissance painters (including women painters like Artemisia Gentileschi and Sofonisba Anguissola, who were able ...

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 ...

Burke celebrates the female artists and intellectuals ... If you were wondering how to be a Renaissance woman, the answer, Burke's book perhaps inadvertently tells you, is: Just don't. How to Be a ...

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.