Venetian Woman with Moveable Skirt, 1563, Engraving, Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (14 x 18.9 cm), Prints, Venice was famed for its many elaborately dressed and coiffed courtesans. Foreign visitors marveled at their opulent jewels and use of abundant cosmetics, while civic authorities, when not enlisting them as a deterrent to the scourge of sodomy, decried the courtesans' deliberately misleading resemblance to 'honest women
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