Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty ImagesThe original painting by Renaissance artist Cimabue that was discovered in an elderly woman’s house in France. When people clean out their house, they often find ...

Witness the restoration of a magnificent mural created by a 16th-century nun who is considered the first great woman ... Renaissance. Follow the restoration of the mural by a team of female art ...

Laurie Anderson could be considered a modern Renaissance woman but she would humbly say ... That dabbling includes writing, composing, photography, painting and filmmaking. Her ground-breaking ...

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 ...

Book of the Week. An alternative history of the Renaissance, as told by the women behind the paintings - providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives.

Follow the restoration of a magnificent canvas created by a 16th century nun who is considered to be the first great woman artist of the Renaissance. Plautilla Nelli painted a depiction of The ...