ISBN：9781907804731    

书名：Sublime Beauty: Raphael's Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn / 崇高之美：崇高的美:拉斐尔的《带独角兽的女士画像》

作者：Esther Bell

出版：GILES，2015

装帧：精装，72页

尺寸：20.8 × 1.2 × 29.2 cm

语种：英文

内容提要：

本书聚焦于拉斐尔最迷人和神秘的画作之一。画中的神秘金发女郎悠闲自得，她是拉斐尔在佛罗伦萨时期的女性肖像的缩影。由文艺复兴艺术的顶尖专家撰写的文章探讨了这幅杰作和《蒙娜丽莎》之间的关系，以及与彼特拉克的诗歌和文艺复兴流行的“美”概念之间的联系。

Sublime Beauty: Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn focuses on one of the artist’s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings and the idendity of the mysterious blonde sitter who epitomized his female portraiture during his Florentine period.

Two essays by leading specialists in Renaissance art, Linda Wolk-Simon and Mary Shay-Millea, explore the stylistic relationship between this masterpiece and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and the link to Petrarch’s poetry and popular notions of beauty in Renaissance art. They examine attributions and the painting’s distinct iconography, and why, in place of the usual lapdog, the woman holds a unicorn.