Beschreibung:
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.
Lenders to the Exhibition 7 Forward by Earl A. Powell III 8 Acknowledgments by David Alan Brown 9 Introduction by David Alan Brown 11 Women in Renaissance Florence by Dale Kent 25 Poetic Ideals of Love and Beauty by Victoria Kirkham 49 Portrait of the Lady, 1430-1520 by Joanna Woods-Marsden 63 Costume in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Portraits of Women by Roberta Orsi Landini and Mary Westerman Bulgarella Catalog of the Exhibition 99 Index 231