Synopses & Reviews
Sublime Beauty: Raphaeland#8217;s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn focuses on one of the artistand#8217;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 Vinciand#8217;s Mona Lisa, and the link to Petrarchand#8217;s poetry and popular notions of beauty in Renaissance art. They examine attributions and the paintingand#8217;s distinct iconography, and why, in place of the usual lapdog, the woman holds a unicorn.
Synopsis
Celebrates one of Raphaeland#8217;s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, Woman with a Unicorn of 1506-9
Synopsis
Celebrating one of Raphaeland#8217;s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, his Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn of 1505-6, from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Sublime Beauty is an important contribution to the existing research on Raphaeland#8217;s iconic painting, and to the study of the artistand#8217;s working practice.
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This volume features two essays by leading specialists in sixteenth-century Renaissance art, Dr. Mary Shay-Millea and Dr. Linda Wolk-Simon, which explore the distinct iconography of the painting and the interesting questions it poses about nuptial imagery and patronage during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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About the Author
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 and 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