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The bride's jewellery: Lorenzo Lotto's wedding portrait of Marsilio & Faustina Cassotti: the significance of virtue, fertility and a healthy dowry in 16th-century north Italian society can all be read in the symbolism of a wedding portrait by Lorenzo Lotto
- Source :
- Apollo. January 2009, Vol. 169 Issue 561, p48, 8 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Lorenzo Lotto's humorous look at the burdensome yoke of marriage has long been recognised as representing Marsilio Cassotti slipping a wedding ring onto the finger of his bride (Figs. 1 [...]
- Subjects :
- Painters, Italian -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Portrait painting -- Criticism and interpretation -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Arts, visual and performing
Criticism and interpretation
Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Works
Portrayals
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00036536
- Volume :
- 169
- Issue :
- 561
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Apollo
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.192849920