and creates what some consider the first modern painting. His model, Victorine Meurent, is depicted as a courtesan, a woman whose body is a commodity. While middle-and- upper class gentlemen of ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

“When I paint portraits, it describes such a mood ... There has been a resurgence of mature women models in their 50s and 60s who are relishing in the spotlight. “My agent tells me I’m ...