Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Women, men and society: painted marriage furniture
2 Profile portraits in the Quattrocento: cirtue and status
3 Portraits 1480–1560: beauty and power
4 Female nudes in Renaissance art
5 The cult of female saints: images of devotion and exempla
Conclusion
Index

About the Author

Paola Tinagli is Lecturer in the History of Art and Design in the Department of the Humanities, Edinburgh College of Art