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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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Book/TextUse in library ND623.R2 A66 2015Off-site

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  • Bell, Esther (Esther Susan)
  • Wolk-Simon, Linda.
  • Shay-Millea, Mary, 1970-
  • Coliva, Anna.
  • Cincinnati Art Museum.
  • Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Description
72 pages : color illustrations; 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"--
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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 and index.
ISBN
  • 9781907804731 (hardback)
  • 1907804730 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2015017122
  • 9781907804731
OCLC
  • ocn908087985
  • 908087985
  • SCSB-5846520
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Columbia University Libraries