Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, ...

This new "blockbuster" at the National Gallery – featuring more than 100 exhibits including paintings, manuscripts and ...

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

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.

Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the ...

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 ...