Virtue & beauty
Subtitle: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance portraits of women
By: National Gallery of Art
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Renaissance Portraits; Women; Portraits; Renaissance Portrait painting; Italian Art
Other titles: NGA :; Virtue and beauty :
Description: This Web site is patterned after a museum exhibit that presented information on Renaissance women portraits. Learn how Europe was without images of living people, except in the religious sense, before the fifteenth century. Artists then decided to devote their time and energy to the figures that had always been a part of them. The site focuses on the flowering of female portraiture in Florence from c. 1440 to c. 1540. These works of art also illustrate the broad shift the occurred in this period from the profile portrait to a more frontal view of the models.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed November 28, 2001).

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High School - Postsecondary.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Bridal portrait; title: Profile portraits; title: Fantasy beauty; title: Three-quarter-view portraits; title: Double-sided portraits; title: Three-quarter-length portraits; title: Image list; title: Related online resources.