Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

In the summer of 1553, a girl of around 16 was proclaimed the queen of England. Her name was Lady Jane Grey, and she ruled for just nine days before being executed at the Tower of London. Her reign ...

However, one is an aristocratic white-skinned girl in a pink dress and the other ... For a long time, the double portrait at Scone Palace was labelled with only one name - "the Lady Elizabeth ...

This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from ... Altogether, she seems closer to an 18th-century European ideal of beauty than a 17th-century Powhatan Indian.