The Renaissance and early modern period were both challenging and rewarding for women artists ... Although she became most ...

which is to glorify history and the French state, and creates what some consider the first modern painting. His model, Victorine Meurent, is depicted as a courtesan, a woman whose body is a commodity.

In France, we like bold lipstick colours, but it has to look like it took two seconds. And to be honest, we usually only need ...

Thousands of women ... famous for: Military accomplishments and religion Bottom line: Joan of Arc is one of the earliest ...

A painting of a naked woman in the ... Some of the most famous artworks in the world feature naked women or men, and Ms Baynham said better-known artists were allowed to display similar works ...

The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

Vincent van Gogh's ‘The Starry Night’ is one of the most famous ... A painting that is said to hide many secrets and deep meanings is the ‘Mona Lisa’. The portrait of a mysterious woman ...

It was that purposeful duplicity which helped her to distinguish herself from her peers—she was actively challenging the era-specific presumption that men were photographers and women were models.

Her paintings depict figures, including herself, and others, having painted portraits of her famous friends ... by the 19 th century French writer George Sand, a woman who wore men’s clothing ...

The Dutch historian Hans Luijten has done much to advance Jo’s legacy, in part through his book Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous. As Jo well understood, the art business was ...

Other sources say the woman in the painting is model Angela Duche ... of the Museum Fund of Russia Maria Lopukhina, sister of the famous adventurer Fyodor Tolstoy, died of consumption at 26 ...