Renaissance art calls to mind some of the greatest names in art history—Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello, just to name a few. Lesser known, however, are the influential women ...

The Royal Collection has an extraordinary number of Renaissance drawings – thanks in large ... there’s an old woman drawn in chalk on blue paper by an unknown hand and another of a young ...

“Prayer and Devotional Practice” explores how works of art were central to ... with interactive videos and Renaissance music, including the work of three women composers and songs that nuns ...

During the Italian Renaissance, when women were considered little more than ... her renowned beauty immortalized in a well-known drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. We read in documents and personal ...

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Even her attire is a far cry from what you’d expect a Renaissance lady ... that subjects like older women might hold. Elderly women haven’t just served satirical art. From ancient Roman ...

A Harlem Renaissance sculptor and art educator, she was also one of the first Black women art activists of her time and fought for the inclusion of Black artists in the mainstream canon.

Art historian Burke (Changing Patrons) takes an eye-opening look at the lives of women during the Italian Renaissance. Arguing that the era experienced the first modern wave of unrealistic beauty ...

Drawing on a huge range of primary sources, and vividly depicting the experiences of real Renaissance women including writers, slaves, street sellers and alchemists, Burke explores everything from ...