Virtue & beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance portraits of women / David Alan Brown [and others]
2001, 1st Edition. Washington: National Gallery of Art. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Item #344669
ISBN: 0691090572
Physical description: 236 pages: illustrations (some color); 33 cm. Contents:
Introduction / David Alan Brown -- Women in Renaissance Florence / Dale Kent -- Poetic ideals of love and beauty / Victoria Kirkham -- Portrait of the lady, 1430-1520 / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- Costume in fifteenth-century Florentine portraits of women / Roberti Orsi Landini, Mary Westerman Bulgarella -- Catalogue of the exhibition. Subjects:
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. Ginevra de' Benci; Exhibitions. Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Painting. National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Exhibitions. Women; Portraits; Exhibitions. Women in art; Exhibitions.
Price: €75.00