“Most women artists painted mostly portraits and still lives ... in the same breath as art made by the great male contemporaries of the 17th century, such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony ...

The unveiling and proposed £10m sale of an early 17th century portrait, reputedly of William ... the only indoor establishment of the King’s Men or the Shakespeare Company, where Shakespeare ...

Portrait of a Boy was painted by Dutch master Ferdinand Bol in the 17th century, which shows an eight-year-old boy standing in the foreground holding a goblet while resting his other hand on his hip.

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...

One, published in 1663, is Francis Hawkins’s translation of a French conduct guide titled Youths Behaviour, or Decency in Conversation Among Men ... most English 17th-century portraits featured ...

A quick forehead reduction, lip plump and a bit of tan, it is common place across Instagram where perfectly enhanced photos fill the timeline – but these edits are not just a 21st century ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

As the only known work ledger for a woman artist in the 16th or 17th centuries, Sirani’s journal listing the 203 paintings and two ... by their fathers or other men in their orbit.