On the Beauty of Women
First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's movement from Nature to Art, from divinely to humanly created…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-1404-8
- EAN: 9780812214048
- Produktnummer: 9913397
- Verlag: University Of Pennsylvania Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.0 cm 231 g
- Abbildungen: 19 illus.
- Gewicht: 231
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