A portrait honouring the "vital role" women play in the maritime industry has been unveiled. The portrait, created by artist ...

This month, the focus is on women as this Saturday marks International Women’s Day. Acclaimed visual artist Giorgos Gerontidis contributes to the occasion in his own way by holding a new painting ...

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London announced last week that it had added five self-portraits by female artists, including its first self-portrait of a Black woman, to its collections. The ...

Hamida Ouali pointed at a painting of herself wearing a green dress that is traditional among the Amazigh, the North African ethnic group to which she belongs, and made a decision. "I like it," she ...

It’s arguably the most famous painting in the world, and it’s shrouded in mystery. Most notably, the identity of the woman pictured in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting known as the Mona Lisa isn’t ...

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish artist Quinten Massys might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s most atypical. With wrinkled skin, ...

Every picture tells a story, as the saying goes, yet throughout history, the narrator has been overwhelmingly male, especially in academic settings. From the Renaissance onward, that began to change, ...

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...

King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At one point in the new movie Portraits of Dangerous Women, young woman Ashley (Yasmin Monet Prince) is talking to gallery ...