Renaissance painters (including women painters like Artemisia Gentileschi ... which was the gateway to success in the era of the flourishing art-déco movement. She painted myriads of portraits, nudes ...

click image for close-up During the Renaissance and for many years before ... The term "Moorish Woman" in the title suggests that the woman was from the northwest region of Africa and of the ...

Thematically, most art portrayed biblical narratives ... creation of layers of detail and depth. In the early Renaissance, portraits of women were typically “commissioned by the husbands ...

Las Vegas-based artist Heather Theurer is putting the beauty back into Disney by creating renaissance-style paintings ... Disney characters in her classic portrait style. “I told him I hadn ...

And so strong was Biffin’s artistic drive that she toured country fairs in her native England as part of a sideshow, where she was paid to sketch portraits ... History of Women Artists in ...