Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy

” Erano i capei d’oro a l’aura sparsi…” The Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy The image of golden hair, romanticised in the literature and art of 15th-century Italy, holds a particular fascination for historians of Renaissance culture. This was…

Pollaiolo Young Woman at Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Pollaiolo Young Woman at Poldi Pezzoli Museum – Articolo di Eugenio Larosa This portrait of a young Florentine woman, seemingly absorbed in her thoughts, was painted in the latter half of the 15th century and is now housed in the…