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 their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate ... features a mask that resembles the woman whose portrait it conceals. Surrounded by illusionistically rendered classical ...

Self-Portrait' by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz ... This is a well-known convention, but the devil is in the details, as the saying goes. Renaissance painters (including women painters like Artemisia ...

A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had for decades ...

Follow the restoration of a magnificent canvas created by a 16th century nun who is considered to be the first great woman artist of the Renaissance. Plautilla Nelli painted a depiction of The ...

The picture -- "Portrait of ... as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance style in her own ...

This photograph taken on March 21, 2025, shows a recently discovered painting by Italian artist Lavinia Fontana, entitled "Portrait ... the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance ...