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Article: Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Patricia Phillippy. Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 258 pp. index. illus. bibl. $52. ISBN: 0-8018-8225-7.
Studying the so-called cosmetic debate in conjunction with the theories of the art of painting in early modern Europe is an interesting and intriguing idea. The connections between the acts of adorning one's face and of creating an image on a panel are mentioned, or alluded to, in several Renaissance texts. As Patricia Phillippy points out, in Della Famiglia (1434) Leon Battista Alberti identifies wives and statues as objects which can and are generally acquired by ...