15 Michelangelo, Libyan Sibyl. Fresco

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TitleLibyan Sibyl

Creator nameBuonarroti, Michelangelo

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1508–1512

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

LocationSistine Chapel, Vatican City

SubjectsMural painting and decoration, Renaissance--Vatican CitySibyls in artSistine Chapel (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)

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4. Making Naked Women Beautiful

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The Italian Renaissance Nude

More than a hundred years come between Cennini’s dismissal of women as unworthy of study to form the “perfect body” and the famous text ascribed to Raphael about generating his image of Galatea (fig. 4.1) through an “Idea.” The two texts betray contrasting attitudes toward the artistic worth of female beauty that encapsulate a...

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Jill Burke

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.125-157

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.5

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Chapter subject tags:Venus deities in artArt, Renaissance--ItalyNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceAnatomy, Artistic--RenaissanceCastiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529Androgyny (Psychology) in art--RenaissanceMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Raphael, 1483-1520Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Renaissance

Chapter One: Framing Marcantonio Raimondi’s Prints

Lisa Pon

Description: Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance...

Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print

~Little is now known about Marcantonio Raimondi’s life, not even when or where he was born or died. He left very few archival traces that have survived: one document (lost in the early...

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Lisa Pon

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.15-38

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00231.002

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Chapter subject tags:Raimondi, Marcantonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534Bandinelli, Baccio, 1493-1560Prints--CopyingPrints, Renaissance--ItalyVasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574

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