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 ...

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

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

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.