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

click image for close-up During the Renaissance and for many years before ... The term "Moorish Woman" in the title suggests that the woman was from the northwest region of Africa and of the ...

Self-Portrait' by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz ... This is a well-known convention, but the devil is in the details, as the saying goes. Renaissance painters (including women painters like Artemisia ...

Robilant + Voena specializes in Italian Renaissance and baroque ... the most important of all the genres. Women were limited to painting portraits and still life artworks, like fruit bowls.

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 ...

Renaissance artist’s fresco on Sistine Chapel ceiling appears to feature woman with symptoms of disease, researchers claim ...

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.