Sublime beauty
Subtitle: Raphael's Portrait of a lady with a unicorn
By: edited by Esther Bell ; with contributions by Linda Wolk-Simon and Mary Shay-Millea and Anna Coliva
Contributors: Cincinnati Art Museum; Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Giles Limited, D.
Published: 2016-03-15
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781907804731
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions
Description: "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"--
Notes: "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.