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Beauty Secrets of Renaissance Women - Paul Ferguson - 07-29-2023
A new book explores how 16th-century Italian women used marble dust, pearls, gold and mutton fat in their quest to look as pretty as a picture
Jill Burke’s How To Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity is published on August 3 (Profile Books/Wellcome Collection). Burke is also a contributor to a related exhibition, The Cult of Beauty, which opens at the Wellcome Collection on October 26
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beauty-secrets-of-renaissance-women-times-luxury-0zrpqkm7z