Drawing on early published beauty pamphlets, letters, poems, songs, diaries and recipe books, not to mention treatises by both men and women and the rich material of Renaissance art, she has emerged ...

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The strong, almost bovine, power captured by an artist in northern Italy ... are left unrealised in the accompanying book (which omits discussion of each work’s provenance and history). “Drawing the ...

There, he had two rooms, the Library Room and the Jewel Room, specially designed to hold his extensive collection of art books and jewelry pieces. The rooms were turned into the Headley-Whitney ...