‘The Whole City Was in Love with Her’: The ‘It Girl’ Style Wars of Renaissance Italy
Imagine walking through the bustling streets of 15th-century Florence, where every corner buzzed with artists, merchants, and nobles. Amid the grandeur of emerging masterpieces, a young woman turns heads like no one else. “The whole city was in love with her,” as one curator recently put it. She wasn’t just beautiful—she set the standard everyone … Read more