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My Renaissance Portrait's Match

Aziza, TAG Member

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2012

Renaissance portrait and helmet mask

I was challenged to find a work of art from another culture and time period that is similar in some way to the Renaissance portrait that I have been researching. For my portrait's match, I decided to pick a helmet mask made by the Mende or Sherbro peoples from Sierra Leone in West Africa.

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The Ideal Woman

Jamilah, TAG Member

Posted: Friday, February 17, 2012

Master of the Castello Nativity (Italian, Florentine, active ca. 1445–75). Portrait of a Woman, probably 1450s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 (49.7.6)

Do you know what the ideal woman looked like during the Renaissance?

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