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She inspired generations of artists and writers, among them Lauro Quirini and Ludovico Foscarini , and contributed to a centuries-long debate in Europe on gender and the nature of women. [ 2 ] Nogarola is best known for her 1451 work De pari aut impari Evae atque Adae peccato (trans. Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve).
Robert Grudin, in his book "The Lady in the Picture: Design and Revelation in Renaissance Art" stated how "by putting us in the exact position where she as model would have had to sit, Sofonisba is warping our personal space, destabilizing our own subjective paradigms and requiring us to identify with hers."
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Notable women associated with the Renaissance era (circa 1450-1600). Subcategories. This category has ...
She challenged traditional periodization, saying that women's historical experience was different to that of men's, and that while men's options may have expanded during the Renaissance period that the opposite was true for women. Drawing on contemporary literature, Kelly argued that concepts of courtly love led to an increased emphasis on ...
Veronica Franco was born to a family in the Cittadino class. [1] She developed her position in Renaissance Venetian society as a cortigiana onesta (Honest Courtesan), who were intellectual sex workers who derived their position in society from refinement and cultural prowess.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
La Bella is a portrait of a woman by Titian in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The painting shows the subject with the ideal proportions for Renaissance women. [1] In parallel the stringent composition corresponds to Titian's real portraits. The work can be dated by a letter about "that portrait of that woman in a blue dress" in May 1536.
The use of muted coloring and shading of sfumato is inspired by da Vinci's works. The softening of the contours around the face of the woman is also influenced by da Vinci, creating a more intimate, enigmatic portrait. Behind the young woman is a branch of laurel (Laurus), a symbol of chastity or of poets, and carrying the nuptial veil. The ...