Illustration from “De Mulieribus Claris” by Anonymous Master ~ ca. 1404
Marcia Painting Self-Portrait using Mirror, in the Giovanni Boccaccio‘s De Claris mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women). In the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Painting was so important back then. Without good art we would have no idea of what people and places were like. I believe art is actually truer than photographs . There is so much more emotion and depth.