The Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy
” Erano i capi d’oro a l’aura sparsi…” The Ideal of Blondness in Fifteenth-Century Italy The image of golden hair, romanticised in the literature and art of 15th-century Italy, holds a particular fascination for historians of Renaissance culture. This was a period in which beauty ideals were not just physical but carried symbolic and moral weight, embedded in the collective consciousness of the…













