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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 idendity of the mysterious blonde 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’s poetry 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.
Linda Wolk-Simon is the director and chief curator of the Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University.
Mary Shay-Millea is an independent scholar, based in New York, and formerly a Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum
Acknowledgements
Laura on a Loggia: Raphael’s "Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn" by Linda Wolk-Simon
The Lover Entrapped: Virtue and Vice in Raphael’s "Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn" by Mary Shay-Millea
Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn Provenance and Conservation History
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