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Beauty has always been gender-fluid

Androgyny and the ideal form

22nd May 2023
| Dr Maya Corry is a curator and a lecturer in History of Art at Oxford Brookes University; her work focuses on Renaissance Italy, and her forthcoming book is titled: Beautiful Bodies: Sexuality, Spirituality and Gender in Leonardo’s Milan
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We assume that a fixed gender binary has been a constant throughout human history. Dr Maya Corry argues otherwise, looking to the masters of the Renaissance to challenge our contemporary understandings of beauty, gender, and the ideal form.

 

Maya Corry
22nd May 2023

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