Since smiling women were seen at the time as openly seductive, deceitful, drunk, boorish, or attempting to gain power, to be seen smiling in a portrait was thought of as a signal of some or all of ...

The unsmiling women refuse to submit or project ... the gravitas of portrait sessions lingered. For European aristocrats, smiling was a sign of losing face, said Vanessa Brown, a lecturer in ...

From there, I draw their portraits and create the pieces ... Why don’t you smile more? Why shouldn’t women smile more? [Laughs] I smile a lot. Smiling is a very natural thing.

An incredibly rare 19th century portrait that captures a woman smiling is winning praise online for bucking the trend of the time which called for photo subjects to who little or no emotion.

Named for a self-portrait of Fazlalizadeh with the message “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” the formidable portraits include sentiments meant to deter street harassment. One piece tells viewers ...

Her mysterious smile has always seemed like the Mona ... A French scientist claims to have discovered a second portrait of a woman hidden beneath Leonardo da Vinci's famous masterpiece and has ...

The art world is buzzing over a French scientist's claims that he discovered a portrait of another woman lurking beneath the top layer of the world's most famous painting—meaning the Mona Lisa ...