The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an oil painting of a Renaissance woman painted by Da Vinci in 16th century ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

(Annabelle Jones) A BYU student is combining her research with art to paint powerful portraits of women throughout history. European studies major Katherine Latey’s affinity for art dates back t ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

The sixth-seeded Paolini defeated unseeded Magda Linette of Poland 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to make the tournament's final four this year. Paolini is the first Italian woman ...

“It’s an Italian painting ... some of her male Renaissance counterparts. In France, her work rarely shows up in public collections. Fontana’s Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a ...

The other presidential portraits lining the walls of the Colorado State Capitol building have revealed how Donald Trump could have seen his own painting as 'distorted.' His 'unflattering ...

A small museum in northern France has announced the surprise discovery of a new masterpiece by Lavinia Fontana, one of the most celebrated woman painters of the Italian Renaissance. The lost work ...