1. William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
The portrayal of women as passive and quiet within Renaissance literature did not stray far from the image of the Renaissance woman in created works of art. ... Domenico di Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi, an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence and student of Michelangelo, painted a portrait called Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. ... Renaissance literature typically characterized women as submissive and quiet. ... By breaking her silence and declaring, with dignity, how outlandish his tyranny is, the character of Hermione is severed from the typical role that the Renaissance woman p...
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