A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the foremost female painters of the Italian Renaissance. The painting in ...

The Fundació Joan Miró has found an early 20th-century portrait of Dolors Ferrà i Oromí, the artist's mother, beneath Pintura ...

Artists have often included floral bouquets in portraits of women to symbolize femininity and fertility. In this painting, Vigée Le Brun positions a flower vase prominently next to the French ...

The picture – Portrait of a Gentleman ... 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 ...

A provincial museum in northern France showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters, Lavinia ...