Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath ... may forever be a sort of anonymous model,” Wright said, adding that ...

More research into the painting and a detailed analysis could uncover more about the mystery woman, but her identity ... who suggest that she may have been a model, a friend or even a lover ...