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Sublime beauty : Raphael's Portrait of a lady with a unicorn

Title
Sublime beauty : Raphael's Portrait of a lady with a unicorn / edited by Esther Bell ; with contributions by Linda Wolk-Simon, Mary Shay-Millea, and Anna Coliva.
Publication
Cincinnati, OH : Cincinnati Art Museum, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2015.
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Additional Authors
  • Bell, Esther (Esther Susan)
  • Wolk-Simon, Linda
  • Shay-Millea, Mary, 1970-
  • Coliva, Anna
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, host institution
  • Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution
Description
72 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 29 cm
Summary
"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"--
Subject
  • Raphael, 1483-1520 > Exhibitions
  • Raphael, 1483-1520. > Exhibitions
  • Raphael, 1483-1520 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Painting, Renaissance > Exhibitions
  • ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
  • ART / History / Renaissance
  • ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits
  • ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "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."-- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-62) and index.
Call Number
JQF 16-710
ISBN
  • 9781907804731
  • 1907804730
LCCN
  • 2015017122
  • 9781907804731
OCLC
908087985
Title
Sublime beauty : Raphael's Portrait of a lady with a unicorn / edited by Esther Bell ; with contributions by Linda Wolk-Simon, Mary Shay-Millea, and Anna Coliva.
Publisher
Cincinnati, OH : Cincinnati Art Museum, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2015.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-62) and index.
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Added Author
Bell, Esther (Esther Susan), editor.
Wolk-Simon, Linda. Laura in a loggia.
Shay-Millea, Mary, 1970- Lover entrapped.
Coliva, Anna. Lady with a unicorn, a bridal portrait.
Cincinnati Art Museum, host institution.
Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9781907804731
Research Call Number
JQF 16-710
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