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Virtue and Beauty: Renaissance Portraits of Women David Alan Brown
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2001
"Aside from the real or imagined beauty of their female subjects, artists celebrated their exemplary virtues--modesty, piety, and, above all, chastity, the preeminent quality of a woman in a patriarchal society."