Phoenixes and Sphinxes: Renaissance Ladies in Poetry, Paintings, and Life – Bagdasarova Sofia – Eksmo – 2023 – ISBN 978-5-04-193172-8
Phoenixes and Sphinxes: Renaissance Ladies in Poetry, Paintings, and Life
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Everyone has heard of the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia, lecherous and treacherous. But in Renaissance Italy there were other, no less bright, women: poets, writers, singers, salon mistresses, nuns, courtesans and favorites of monarchs, as well as, of course, artists and sitters. Weaving together the cultural history of the Italian Renaissance, one cannot do without these women. However, their names have been lost to the ages and their faces forgotten. The novellas in this book reconstruct for us the story of their lives, recounting the inspiration they engendered in men and the right to creativity and freedom that these women fought for themselves.
The book consists of 15 stories that reveal the secrets of famous paintings and forgotten poems. Facts, names and dates in it - authentic, but the emotions in most cases reconstructed by the author. After all, chronicles of that era, listing facts, usually silent about feelings, love and tears. And also, talking about the Renaissance, of course, you can not do without works of art, so this book has a lot of reproductions of paintings and statues, telling about the heroines. They are accompanied by art history annotations - thanks to them the reader will penetrate deeper into the history of Renaissance art, especially into the evolution of the portrait genre.
The book consists of 15 stories that reveal the secrets of famous paintings and forgotten poems. Facts, names and dates in it - authentic, but the emotions in most cases reconstructed by the author. After all, chronicles of that era, listing facts, usually silent about feelings, love and tears. And also, talking about the Renaissance, of course, you can not do without works of art, so this book has a lot of reproductions of paintings and statues, telling about the heroines. They are accompanied by art history annotations - thanks to them the reader will penetrate deeper into the history of Renaissance art, especially into the evolution of the portrait genre.
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