A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

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

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

In the Renaissance, European artists began to combine the icon and the portrait, making Christ in their own likeness ... parts of the world through European trade and colonization. The Italian painter ...

Her horizon broadened — sheltered existence gave way to interaction with men and women from various strata of society. She picketed shops, organised protests with gusto, and served a term in ...

Yet, just two years after launching Pasta Presto, Jessica’s name has become synonymous with authentic Italian cooking that’s as nourishing as it is nostalgic. Her journey, however, wasn’t ...

“I admired three beautiful portraits of a Roman woman, each representing the same person in a different attitude, & each giving quite a different interpretation of the same countenance.

The family also undertook large excavations in the Italian countryside that ... photo by Agostino Osio; “Portrait of a Young Woman,” via Torlonia Foundation, photo by Lorenzo De Masi; Back ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Portraits of Maine women politicians, past and present, packed the Hall of Flags Monday on the last day of Women’s History Month. Connected with each portrait is a QR ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, D-Ky., unveiled the portraits of the four newest inductees to the Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit at the Kentucky State ...