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Keywords: Italian - Dish with the "Beautiful Camilla" - Walters 481358.jpg Represented in three-quarter profile the idealized portrait of a young woman with fine features and narrow lips has been painted according to Renaissance ideals of female beauty The scroll surrounding her reads CAMILLA BELLA beautiful Camilla Such a plate could have been presented to a lady of that name from an admirer but it could also have been treasured as a general poetic evocation of ideal beauty ca 1530 1545 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 4 9 24 2 accession number 48 1358 5249 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Casteldurante present-day Urbania Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Bella donna on maiolica Casteldurante maiolica
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