When taking X-ray and infrared images of a "portrait depicting ... Courtauld Institue of Art in London discovered that underneath the portrait was a painting of a woman. Historians found the ...

In 1945, Joy Hester painted Pauline McCarthy, a portrait of her close ... me in the lecture room at the Victorian College of the Arts, where I taught art history. The harsh light from the slide ...

Who knew that Victorian women, those born in the mid- to ... Ruth" surveyed women born just after the Civil War, painting an intimate portrait that is strikingly at odds with the perception ...

While the art attacks were controversial, it was just one of the ways that women during the Victorian era sought ... By ruining portraits and exhibitions, the women sent a powerful message about ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld ...