This onetime piece of kitchen décor will soon hang in France’s most famous museum. The painted panel that an elderly French woman discovered above her hot plate back in 2019 has been obtained ...

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

For more than a century, a portrait of a mystery woman lay hidden beneath a painting from Pablo Picasso’s famed Blue Period. Now, with the help of advanced imaging technology, conservators at ...

San Antonio artist Gabbe Grodin seeks to dismiss negative stereotypes of the women she portrays holding their paintings with dignity.

In haunting new paintings, Canadian artist Jennifer Carvalho recasts women she’s culled from Old Master works by Giotto to Rogier van der Weyden. The paintings, which are now on view in ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on ...

A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

In works from her Biblical Domestic (2021–2024) and Menstrual Hystery (2024) series, Lightman trades halos for housework, and ...

Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one of Pablo Picasso’s paintings: a portrait of a woman.