Another iconic painting of women from the Renaissance era is ‘Primavera’. Painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1482, this painting does not feature a single woman, but rather many, all in their ...

Renaissance woman, art curator, mother, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur Mashonda Tifrere is a portrait of courage and a change agent. From an early age, growing up in Harlem, she was ...

An elderly woman kept what she thought was an “old religious painting” between the kitchen and sitting room of her apartment in Compiègne, a town in northern France.

A nonprofit has identified 2,000 works by women artists that had been stashed in Italy's public museums and damp churches. It's also supported restoration of 70 works from the 16th to 20th centuries.

- People in the Renaissance, particularly noble people, believed that art by pious women had spiritual qualities. And so, in some way, their paintings were imbued with spirituality and they were ...

Women in Renaissance Paintings Get a Fashion Mag Photoshop Job. Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus (1486) re-imagined by Lauren Wade. Sarah Cascone May 21, 2014 Share Share This Article.

In the catalog for “Virtue and Beauty,” the show of portraits of Renaissance women on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through Jan. 6, art historian Joanna Woods-Marsden poses ...

Sheila Barker, executive director of Studio Incamminati, a school for Realist painting, said that shows like “Strong Women” helped to “reverse a presumption that is widespread, even in 20th ...

Scientists found a medieval woman's blue teeth suggesting that some high-profile artists from over 1,000 years ago were women. Skip to content. Morning Edition Listen Live Listen Live. ... And that ...

Barbara de Dozsa had previously argued that she owned the painting by Antonio Solario as the limit for claims had passed ...

A painting found in the kitchen of an elderly woman in France is a work of art from a 13th century Renaissance artist and could be worth as much as $6.5 million, according to experts.