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Veronica Franco mingled with the cultural elite of Venice in her work as a courtesan and poet. Among other literary and artistic figures, Franco befriended Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), a native-born painter who was renowned for his portraits of the Venetian nobility and his religious narratives.
VERONICA FRANCO, TINTORETTO, AND NARCISSUS. Norman E. Land. At the beginning of the second book of his on his painting, which is an art of imitating. treatise on painting, De Pictura (1435), nature. Franco tells Tintoretto that he excels. Leon Battista Alberti refers to Narcissus as at imitating not only the human body, but, "the first painter."
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Franco, Veronica (1546-1591), Venetian Courtesan Poet. Veronica Franco was born in Venice into a family who were native-born citizens with hereditary rights. As a professional caste, the cittadini originari made up the Venetian government bureaucracy and the religious confraternities. The daughter of a courtesan, Paola Fracassa, Franco learned ...
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When Veronica Franco was born, the role of Renaissance courtesans often went beyond sex work. Many were considered intellectuals — and Franco was one such woman. In the half-century before Franco was born, Venice boasted around 12,000 prostitutes out of a total population of 100,000 people. Additionally, under a 1542 law, any unmarried woman who ha...
In some ways, Venetians saw courtesans and prostitutes as a necessary evil. They were tolerated both to protect “honest women” from attack and because the sex industry generated tremendous tax revenue for the government. In addition to intellectuals and sex workers, courtesans of Franco’s time were considered trendsetters who pushed the boundaries ...
In fact, Veronica Franco’s trial captures the delicate existence of intellectual courtesans. All it took for Franco’s fragile status to crumble was an anonymous accusation of witchcraft in 1580. Franco was consequently hauled before the Venetian Holy Inquisition, a tribunal created by the Venetian government and the Catholic Church to sniff out her...
Franco’s final years were difficult. Her reputation was damaged by Vannitelli’s accusations; the second outbreak of the black plaguebetween 1575 and 1577 left her impoverished, and one of her most faithful patrons died in 1582. Franco was thus forced to spend her last years in a Venetian neighborhood known for its destitute prostitutes. She died at...
Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice. She is known for her notable clientele, feminist advocacy, literary contributions, and philanthropy. Her humanist education and cultural contributions influenced the roles of Courtesans in the late Venetian Renaissance . In her notable works, Capitoli in ...
Jul 29, 2009 · 26 th April 2004. In the portrait by Tintoretto entitled: “Portrait of Woman – Veronica Franco,” one can hardly mistake the soft, sensual flesh that surrounds those two intelligent-looking eyes. The painting’s muse was indeed as intelligent and poetic as she was beautiful and fascinating.
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