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Virtue and beauty : Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance portraits of women by Brown, David Alan, 1942-, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many of the finest portraits of women (and a few of men) by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci--whose remarkable double-sided portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, which departs notably from tradition, is the focus of special attention. It was in Florence during this period that portraiture expanded beyond the realm of rulers and their consorts to encompass women of the merchant class. This phenomenon, long known to scholars, is here presented to a larger audience for the first time. The catalogue, which accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, traces how the humanist praise of women influenced and enlivened their depiction. It also considers how meaningful costumes and settings were chosen. Works from outside Florence by such masters as Pisanello, Rogier van der Weyden, and Ercole Roberti shed additional light on the evolution of female portraiture dur

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Author

Brown, David Alan, 1942-, National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Publisher

Washington : National Gallery of Art

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780894682858

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Arts