With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were preserved ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with South African actress Thuso Mbedu about her role in "The Woman King," a new movie about woman warriors in 19th century West Africa.

These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in ...

Film Review: Viola Davis Stars as a 19th Century African Warrior in “The Woman King” Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s film is set in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey in 1823.

The history of breastfeeding reveals uncomfortable truths about women, work and money. An unlikely place where the history of nursing is clearly visible is in Impressionist paintings. Although the ...

The 19th Century’s Most Scandalous Painting Comes to New York “Olympia,” the brothel scene that birthed modern art, crosses the Atlantic for the first time in the Met exhibition “Manet ...

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...

(New York Jewish Week) – A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western Wall that spent many forgotten years in a synagogue’s storage room is headed to auction at ...

Explore the lives of 19th-century women by looking at five very different portraits from the National Portrait Gallery. The photographs, etchings and paintings of Trukanini, Theresa Mort, Mary ...

Many artists are using the latest A.I.-powered digital techniques to create a nostalgic past — an ironic throwback. Seth Price manages to be contemporary.