Aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance in the Female Aristocratic Hairstyle Cover Image

Естетика Італійського ренесансу в жіночій аристократичній зачісці
Aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance in the Female Aristocratic Hairstyle

Author(s): Oksana Anatoliyivna Minenko
Subject(s): Cultural history, Aesthetics, Ethnohistory, Gender history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: Italian Renaissance; aesthetics; aristocracy; women's hairstyle;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to determine the influence of the aesthetic ideals of the Italian Renaissance on the formation and stylistic diversity of aristocratic women's hairstyles. The methodology of the study consists of the principles of objectivity, historicism, multifactor, systemicity, complexity, and pluralism; and to achieve the goal methods used: problem chronological, concrete-historical, statistical, descriptive, logical-analytical. Scientific novelty. An art-study analysis of the formation of the style of women's aristocratic hairstyles in Italy in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries was conducted in the context of Renaissance aesthetics, based on the study of rare sources and archival materials; The role of well-known Italian aristocrats, legislators of the Isabella and Beatrice d'Este, Bianchi Maria Sforza, Batista Sforza, Maddaleni Doni, Eleonora of Toledo, Lucia Albani Avogadro, and others are researched in the process of creating and promoting new styles of women's hairstyles. Conclusions. Based on the study of the specifics of the creation and finishing of aristocratic female hairstyles of the Italian Renaissance, it has been proved that their stylistic and formative features are one aspect of the modification of the human body in accordance with the humanistic views and aesthetic ideals of the Renaissance; It was found that a female hairstyle in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries was a symbol of individual and group identity.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 125-133
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Ukrainian