WASHINGTON — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who ...

Some historical art, however, depicts a more neutral, or even positive, attitude towards women’s alopecia. In religious or mythical art, it was sometimes idealized as divine.

WASHINGTON — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who ...

We have medieval imagery of women in armor, to be sure—paintings and illustrations depicting women from history and myth. You might see the Amazons or the goddess Minerva or the 6th century BC ...

This collection brings together three late medieval portrayals of women. An examination of the materiality and iconography of these depictions shows how they communicate deeper ideas about female ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, since she began ...

Staff members from the Historical Society of Philadelphia and the Association for Public Art check out a new exhibit showcasing the role of women in public art. ''Public Art in Philadelphia: A Legacy ...

Prior to feminism’s appropriation of pubes in the ’70s, three major moments define Western art’s feelings about female pubic hair, and those feelings are a tangled nest of shocking, obscene ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder ...

Medieval woman’s hidden art career revealed by blue teeth. ... (Christina Warinner/Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History/AP) About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was ...

WASHINGTON - About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was.