"I immediately thought it was a work of Italian primitivism. But I didn't imagine it was a Cimabue," said the auctioneer who ...

[Theme music begins] Welcome to Harmonia . . . I’m Angela Mariani. Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated ...

Halsey says she had the coolest mom. “She’s a full-sleeve-tatted, tongue-pierced, five-foot-tall, grown-up punk woman,” says the artist born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, “and she turned me ...

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Book of the Week. An alternative history of the Renaissance, as told by the women behind the paintings - providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives.

For nearly two decades the couple traveled, went to Renaissance fairs and historic ... cleanup timeline The two women wept together over the realization that it was almost certainly the last ...