Virtue and Beauty
Subtitle: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780691090573
Subjects: Early Renaissance (c 1400-1500); Painting & paintings; Portraits in art; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History - Renaissance; Exhibitions; Art & Art Instruction; Portraits, Renaissance; Art; Italy; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Art / History / General; Art and Architecture; European History; Gender Studies; Women; History - General; Florence; Portraits; Portraits, Italian
Description: "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 del Pollaiuolo, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del 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."--BOOK JACKET.