Nineteenth-century art critics were troubled by vampirism and gender ambiguity in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting.

Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for ...

Impressive though she was at being feisty in Erin Brockovich, psychological complexity does not come easily to her, and her smile (constantly compared within the movie to the Mona Lisa's ...