Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a noblewoman (ca ... She also painted mythological scenes and self-portraits, and is the first-known woman painter to depict female nudes. With her husband, who ...

The Fontana miniature is shown in the bottom right Courtesy of Strawberry Hill House & Garden Identifying the true sitter of a portrait of this kind is “exceedingly difficult”, Brady says.

One of Europe’s first professional women artists, the Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana was known for her empathetic portraits of women and children. She sensitively depicted Antonietta Gonzales ...

Vanessa Severo’s solo show about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is most effective when it’s about Severo’s own journey to ...

Frida … A Self Portrait,” which opened Friday at Glencoe’s Writers Theatre, digs deep into her life. In the 75-minute, ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

U.S. officials say the Pentagon is readying deployment of nearly 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, including dozens of Marines working ...

The oil on copper miniature portrait, originally believed to be by Bronzino, is the subject of an exhibition at its former home—Strawberry Hill House.

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...

A self-portrait of Raphael at age 23 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Raphael’s Mary Magdalene is a willowy figure standing in front of a black geometric background. She’s without her ...