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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has spotted signs on a bare-chested woman in the painting on the biblical flood in the Sisten Chapel that appear to show had breast cancer ...