Portrait of a Canon Regular, painted by the maestra in 1552, was exhibited at the Winter Show, art fair held at the Park Avenue Armory.

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 Louvre ...

A long-lost painting by 13th century Italian master Cimabue that was found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman has sold for 24 million euros ($A39 million), more than four times the pre-auction ...

Sofonisba Anguissola's 16th-century painting of a clergyman was known only through a black-and-white photo. However, the ...

It must have taken many hands to rush the Bolognese Mannerist artist Lavinia Fontana’s most ambitious extant painting, a nearly 10-foot-long canvas from 1599, out of a burning building during the ...

Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood friend you haven’t seen in decades. Despite the years and the changes that come with them, you know just who you’re looking at. “That’s what ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examines how women faced barriers to equality but often overcame them to contribute to the culture of the era. By Tanya Mohn This article is part of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the ...

What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...