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 ...

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 ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...

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.