Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de'Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2001. Hardbound. VG+/VG. Red cloth with color-illus. dj.; 236 pp.with 76 bw, 97 color plates. This beautifully illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Includes portraits by Filippo Lipi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del Verrochio, and Leonardo da Vinci. Includes an annotated catalogue of 41 works. COntents as follows: Introduction /; David Alan Brown --; Women in Renaissance Florence /; Dale Kent --; Poetic ideals of love and beauty /; Victoria Kirkham --; Portrait of the lady, 1430-1520 /; Joanna Woods-Marsden --; Costume in fifteenth-century Florentine portraits of women /; Roberti Orsi Landini, Mary Westerman Bulgarella --; Catalogue of the exhibition. "This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many of the finest portraits of women (and a few of men) by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci - whose remarkable double-sided portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, which departs notably from tradition, is the focus of special attention."--Jacket.