New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into ...

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 ...

In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” Jill Burke dispels any misplaced ... Ms. Brothers is a professor of art and architecture at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da ...

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.