The Image of Woman in Art. How the Ideal of Beauty Changed from Nefertiti to Marlene Dietrich

«The Image of Woman in Art. How the Ideal Changed from Nefertiti to Marlene Dietrich» — this is a journey through the centuries, in which art historian Daria Oskin reveals how the ideal of female beauty has changed and what was valued in women in different eras.
Author — an internationally recognized art historian, author of the blog @daria.oskin, lecturer and writer, educated in the field of art history in several European countries, and has also collaborated with one of the oldest museums in the world — the Louvre. In this book, Daria Oskin elegantly and thoroughly describes how the ideal of woman has evolved from Ancient Egypt to the 20th century, providing examples of beauties from the canvases of foreign museums, such as Botticelli's «The Birth of Venus», Leonardo da Vinci's «Mona Lisa», Renoir's «Bathers», to show how different female beauty was in various epochs.
A large number of illustrations allows one to feel the transformation of the ideal woman and not only learn about the history of the female image in art but also trace how the perception of women in the works of great masters changed — from the idealized image to a living and individual one.