A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...

The 3,000-year-old clay figurine was crude and partially done and was found as part of a submerged village beneath the volcanic Lake Bolsena in Italy.

In a lavish Victorian-era parlor, a woman in a lace-trimmed dress half rises from the lap of a reclining man, her gaze ...

Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...

Wide-ranging works illustrate the artist’s range and capture the exhibition’s parable: what is destined to live will die, as what dies may rise again.

You don’t have to be an art expert to appreciate a good painting, especially when it comes from Black female painters who are revolutionizing the art world with every brushstroke. From bold portraits ...

"Maria Lai. A Journey to America" at Magazzino Italian Art is the first North American museum show for the Sardinian artist.

Led by artist and heritage advocate Margruite Krahn, the women gathered over the past several months for what became known as “painting bees” — community sessions where they carefully ...

A painting by Marlene Dumas going up for auction this month at Christie’s New York will likely break the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living woman artist.

A BYU student is combining her research with art to paint powerful portraits of women throughout history.

The lot of women war artists, Kinmonth suggests, has long been “archives and attics”. Recommended Interview Film War Paint’s Margy Kinmonth on the secret history of women artists during ...

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