A similar mischief with gender fills the paintings of Ewa Juszkiewicz. Last fall, for her show at Gagosian Beverly Hills, she copied 18th-century likenesses of notable women, down to the pearl.

thought to date from the early 18th Century Who decides which artists are remembered and which are forgotten? With only a small fraction of the art in museums by women, efforts are being made ...

How were women discriminated against in the art world back then? Even in the late 18th Century, women weren’t allowed to train at the same art academies as men. Women weren’t allowed to draw ...

This widely exhibited oil painting, now part of the National Portrait ... Altogether, she seems closer to an 18th-century European ideal of beauty than a 17th-century Powhatan Indian.

You see their work in visitor centers scattered across the nation—18th-century paintings by our nation’s early masters, mahogany desks where historic speeches were penned, early photographs of ...

DREWEATTS is to offer a historic painting of Englefield House (in Berkshire), which shows the owner of the house Powlett ...

Violence against women has been accepted and even condoned throughout history. More than 2,000 years ago, Roman law gave a man life and death authority over his wife. In the 18th Century ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait ... of paper on the floor in the painting. Absent from this list is ...

The show is situated in the museum’s enchanting terra-cotta arcade, which gives the displayed objects—red velvet pillows, ...

Diaries written by women in 18th century Ireland are still to be found in libraries and archives throughout Ireland, the UK, and Europe. They were usually deposited as part of a family's papers ...

Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher These two paintings were in the chapel of St Blaise, a small chapel in the southern section of the south transept which survived until the 18th century. They ...

In a remarkable turn of events, the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced on Friday the recovery and subsequent return of an 18th-century British painting titled "The Schoolmistress" to its ...