A new Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition in Paris showcases never-before-seen paintings that shed new light on the artist.

"There were also women." In modern art, there's more gender parity. But when you browse through collections of medieval, Renaissance or Baroque art, it's mostly male artists. "I think there have ...

Such was the gift of Wautier, whose genre-crossing talents are the subject of Michaelina: Baroque’s Leading ... a privilege withheld from most women of her time. Art historian Pierre-Yves ...

A newly restored work by Artemisia Gentileschi, never before seen in public, is set to go on show at the John Paul Getty ...

The term became shorthand for a voluptuous female body, alluding to the Flemish Baroque master ... how essential women were in the story of his life,” says the art historian Amy Orrock ...

Elisabetta Sirani: Maestra of Baroque Bologna is a concentrated ... She also established the first art academy for women outside of a convent. Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici, among many others ...

Peter Paul Rubens is an artist renowned "as a painter of flesh", said Hannah McGivern in The Art Newspaper. Indeed, such was the Flemish baroque ... important role of women in his life.

State of play: Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman accepted to the Florence Academy of Fine Art, painted the piece around 1625. It depicts Saint Mary Magdalene, a central figure in Christianity ...

Gentileschi's early work, with strikingly dark sections of her canvases contrasting with her illuminated subjects, reflects influences by Baroque ... of strong women. In some of her paintings ...

A masterpiece by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, described as the “inimitable jewel” in a private collection of Baroque paintings being ... of cunning and powerful women – a recurring theme in ...

Following a lecture series focused on African American voices in art, American Impressionism, women artists, the Renaissance, French modernism and the female figure, Baroque art and architecture ...