Sublime beauty
Raphael's Portrait of a lady with a unicorn
by Esther Bell, Linda Wolk-Simon, Mary Shay-Millea, and Anna Coliva
"Sublime Beauty: Raphael's Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn focuses on one of the artist's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings and the mysterious blond sitter who epitomized his female portraiture during his Florentine period. Two essays by leading specialists in Renaissance art, Linda Wolk-Simon and Mary Shay-Millea, explore the stylistic relationship between this masterpiece and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and the link to Petrarch and popular notions of beauty in Renaissance art. They examine attributions and the painting's distinct iconography, and why, in place of the usual lapdog the woman holds a unicorn"--
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Criticism and interpretation, Exhibitions, Raphael, 1483-1520, Portraits, Art, exhibitions, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, ART / History / Renaissance, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART, Individual Artists, Monographs, History, Renaissance, Subjects & Themes, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, GeneralPeople
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Sublime beauty: Raphael's Portrait of a lady with a unicorn
2016-03-15, Giles Limited, D.
in English
1907804730 9781907804731
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"Galleria Borghese. Ministerio dei beni e delle Ativita culturali e del turismo, FIAC, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco."
"This catalog accompanies the exhibition Sublime Beauty: Raphael's Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn on display at Cincinnati Art Museum from October 3, 2015-January 3, 2016 and at The Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from January 9-April 10, 2016."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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