Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Widows, Poetry, and Portraits: Livia Spinola and Francesca Turina on the Portraits of their Dead Husbands
- 3 In Medusa's Eyes: Petrification and Marble Portraits in Late Sixteenth-Century Poetry
- 4 The Portrait of the Ideal Woman: Petrarch in Conduct Literature Texts for and about Women
- 5 Anti-Petrarchist Portraiture or a Different Petrarchist Portraiture?: A Literary Outlook on Some Non-Idealised Female Sitters in Renaissance Art
- 6 The Shadow of Petrarch: Benedetto Varchi and Agnolo Bronzino on Portraiture
- 7 Double Portraits of Petrarch and Laura in Print (c. 1544–1600)
- 8 Sonnet ‘Diptychs’ and Double Portraits: Figurative Allusions in Sixteenth-Century Encomiastic Poetry
- 9 Images of Women from Subject to Frame in Printed Portrait Books
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Widows, Poetry, and Portraits: Livia Spinola and Francesca Turina on the Portraits of their Dead Husbands
- 3 In Medusa's Eyes: Petrification and Marble Portraits in Late Sixteenth-Century Poetry
- 4 The Portrait of the Ideal Woman: Petrarch in Conduct Literature Texts for and about Women
- 5 Anti-Petrarchist Portraiture or a Different Petrarchist Portraiture?: A Literary Outlook on Some Non-Idealised Female Sitters in Renaissance Art
- 6 The Shadow of Petrarch: Benedetto Varchi and Agnolo Bronzino on Portraiture
- 7 Double Portraits of Petrarch and Laura in Print (c. 1544–1600)
- 8 Sonnet ‘Diptychs’ and Double Portraits: Figurative Allusions in Sixteenth-Century Encomiastic Poetry
- 9 Images of Women from Subject to Frame in Printed Portrait Books
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2023