Special edition, limited and numbered. Stitched paperback binding with headbands and 6
raised bands on spine. Front cover and slipcase covered with gold hot foil printings
It is not too long ago that the portrait drawing was auctioned off for a few thousand
dollars –Ðas an untitled piece of art from the 19th century. Lightning struck when
Leonardo expert Martin Kemp attributed "La Bella Principessa" to Leonardo da Vinci,
which resulted in an outrageous hike in value and shook up the entire art world.
Based upon Leonardo's portrait of Bianca Sforza on the occassion of her wedding to
Galeazzo Sanseverino, drawn in 1496, "La Bella Svelata" enters the world of Renaissance
Courts and their most prestigious figures who had enlivened them.
Clothing, hairstyles and cosmetics are formidable keys to fully access this world. The tools
of seduction implemented by the feminine universe, the language "spoken" by dresses
and by the Courts' symbols of power and authority, are here invariably combined in an allfemale
way.