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Aileen Elizabeth Ribeiro Facing beauty
painted women & cosmetic art
This book discusses the shifting perceptions of female beauty, concentrating on the period from about 1540 to 1940. It begins with the Renaissance, when a renewed emphasis on the individual was reflected in the celebration of beauty in the portraits of the day. The fluid, sensual lines of the Baroque period initiated a shift toward a more "natural" look, giving way in the 18th century to a more stylized and artificial face, a mask of ideal beauty. By the late 19th century, commercial beauty preparations...
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Engels | 371 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven [etc.] | 2011
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