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Non-Fiction, Art, Design & Photography, Art, Art History

How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

Jill Burke (author)

Paperback Published on: 08/08/2024

£11.99

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A fascinating and insightful reinterpretation of a seminal period for feminism

I will read anything ever written about the Italian Renaissance, but this intriguing book definitely offers a fresh and intriguing spin on one of my favour... READ MORE

Sam E

A fascinating read

A wonderfully intelligent but accessible exploration into what it meant to be a woman in the Renaissance. Burke is clearly empathetic to the plight of ... READ MORE

Hannah Torres

Synopsis

This is the story of the Renaissance, but not as you know it. Discover overlooked and silenced women from this extraordinary moment in history and how they forged opportunities for creativity, community and resistance.

From the bedchamber to the court, they give us an intimate window into what life was really like - and hold a mirror up to our contemporary obsession with how we look.