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On the Beauty of Women (Paperback)
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On the Beauty of Women (Paperback)
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First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record
two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four
ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One
afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a
subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of
perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they
know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to
the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the
group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's
movement from Nature to Art, from divinely to humanly created
beauty. Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray have provided the
first translation into English of Firenzuola's dialogue since the
nineteenth century. In their introduction, they argue that
Firenzuola's work presents a useful point of entry into the society
and values of the mid-sixteenth century. In its discussion of
beauty, the dialogue reveals the intersection of Neoplantonic
philosophy and mathematically based artistic theory, both inherited
from classical antiquity. Indeed, Firenzuola's treatise has been
assessed as one of the most significant expositions of Renaissance
aesthetics.
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