If you are an art lover, you might be familiar with some of the world's most famous paintings of women. The list of renowned art masterpieces depicting women is extensive, from the Mona Lisa (1503 ...

said it discovered the mystery woman's portrait by using the imaging technology to further examine one of Picasso's very first paintings from his famous Blue Period. The conservators took x-ray ...

It was that purposeful duplicity which helped her to distinguish herself from her peers—she was actively challenging the era-specific presumption that men were photographers and women were models.

A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.