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1. Record Number: 5450
Author(s): Tinagli, Paola
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Title : Womanly Virtues in Quattrocento Florentine Marriage Furnishings [the author examines how behavioral ideals for both new husbands and wives, as represented on cassoni, spalliere, and other furnishings given to the bridal couple, emphasized chastity, restraint, and other virtues that contributed to a well-ordered civic society].

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Pages 265 - 284.
Year of Publication: 2000.

2. Record Number: 10269
Author(s): Leja, Meg
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Title : Mythology, Women and Renaissance Private Life: the Myth of Eurydice in Italian Furniture Painting [The author considers the increasing focus on Eurydice's suffering and death, as well as on her feminine desirability, in Renaissance Italian furniture painting featuring the Orpheus myth. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Art History , 15., 2 ( 1992): Pages 127 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1992.

3. Record Number: 28952
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Title : Cassone [Marriage Chest]

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BLW_Marriage_Chest_%28%27Cassone%27%29.jpg/250px-BLW_Marriage_Chest_%28%27Cassone%27%29.jpg
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