The greatest Renaissance ... portrait painting has been described as the most visited and written-about work in the art world. It is believed to depict the famous Italian woman, Lisa del Giocondo.

The artwork of the Renaissance showed beauty, grace, and mystery. Here we mention the 5 most famous paintings of women from the Renaissance era. The ‘Mona Lisa’ is one of the most famous and ...

Renaissance art calls to mind some of the greatest names in art history—Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello, just to name a few. Lesser known, however, are the influential women ...

In Bible stories ... were modeled after women from Rego’s life, including her daughter and her younger self.) Commissioned in 1991 for a National Gallery cafeteria, the painting was displaced ...

The Louvre Museum has acquired a $26 million painting from the 13th century four years after the work of art was discovered hanging on the wall of an elderly woman’s kitchen in France.

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish artist Quinten Massys might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s most atypical. With wrinkled ...

Portrait of a Woman, painted by Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni, is joining the Frick’s permanent collection. Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images The Frick ...

By Tanya Mohn This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world’s expanded ... century items shown in “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy,” an exhibition ...

One Cincinnatian has a rare and valuable painting from the Northern Renaissance ... "So curators who are doing a show on famous Renaissance women or Baroque women artists wouldn't even know ...

A 16th-century painting, by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni, will go on display at the Frick Madison on Thursday. By Sarah Bahr From a gilded frame, a red-haired woman eyes ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen 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 ...