Described by The Frick as the “finest example” of the 15 or so known independent portraits of women painted by Moroni, it’s the first Renaissance portrait of a woman to join the museum’s ...

A 16th-century painting, by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni, will go on display at the Frick Madison on Thursday. By Sarah Bahr From a gilded frame, a red-haired woman eyes ...

Unsurprisingly, women’s portrait covers were designed to project ... Hidden Faces marks the first time this type of Renaissance painting has been the subject of a museum exhibition.

The woman also has a powerful gaze, unflinching and bold in a way not often seen in Renaissance portrayals of women. It is one of only 15 portraits that the artist did of a woman sitting on her ...

“Strong Women in Renaissance Italy” at the Museum of ... is that she is attributed with completing the first known self-portrait of an artist at their easel—a compositional approach that ...

Artist at workSofonisba Anguissola created “Self-portrait While Painting the ... in her own lifetime as one of a tiny number of Renaissance women who painted their way out of domesticity and ...

The 1513 portrait “An Old ... to explore how the female body, age and certain facial features were satirized and demonized during the Renaissance. “The ‘Ugly Duchess’ is one of the most ...

The individuality of the sitter was much less important than their ability to meet Renaissance beauty ideals. These portraits both showed women what they should be aspiring towards, and acted as a ...

Chances are you can’t, but Jessica Worrall can. The collagist layers contemporary couture atop portraits of real Renaissance women to create digital art that contradicts today’s social media ...

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish ... also reveal how, for many Renaissance artists, “older women offered a space to experiment and play that the depiction of conventional beauty ...