Medievalists.net » The Florentine School http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Constructing social identity in Renaissance Florence: Botticelli’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/06/constructing-social-identity-renaissance-florence-botticellis-portrait-lady/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/06/constructing-social-identity-renaissance-florence-botticellis-portrait-lady/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:16:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53939 This study scrutinizes a work within a neglected portion of Botticelli's oeuvre, examining the ways in which its modest, and somewhat ambiguous, visual cues also construct its sitter's elevated social identity, while simultaneously protecting it.

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