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Sublime Beauty: Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn [Hardcover]

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Category: Books (Art)
Author: Bell, Esther
Author: Bell, Esther
ISBN-10: 1907804730
ISBN-10: 1907804730
ISBN-13: 9781907804731
ISBN-13: 9781907804731
Publisher: GILES
Publisher: GILES
Pages: 64
Pages: 64
Binding: Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 01-Jun-2016
Pub Date: 01-Jun-2016
SKU: 1907804730-11-MING
SKU: 1907804730-11-MING
Item ID: 100425796
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Sublime Beauty: Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicornfocuses on one of the artist’s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings and the idendity of the mysterious blonde 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’s poetry 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.

Esther Bell is curator in charge of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Bell specializes in 17th- and 18th-century European painting and was formerly curator of European painting, drawing, and sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Museum. A former Fulbright scholar, she received a doctorate degree from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, and has held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, among other institutions.

Linda Wolk-Simon is the director and chief curator of the Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University.

Mary Shay-Millea is an independent scholar, based in New York, and formerly a Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum

Celebrates one of Raphael’s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings,Woman with a Unicornof 1506-9

Two essays by leading specialists in Renaissance art, Linda Wolk-Simon and Mary Shay-Millea, explore the stylistic relationship between this masterpiece and Leonardo dal�.