How to Be a Renaissance Woman, Jill Burke

Beauty and power: an alternative history of the Renaissance told by the women beyond the paintings.00Make-up, misogyny and the first feminists: can the pressures women feel to ?look good? be traced to the sixteenth century?00As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes by the likes of Michelangelo and Titian, a vibrant literary scene of beauty tips emerged - fuelling debates about cosmetics and adornment, with answers for worries about everything from podgy upper arms, smelly