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Episode 3.16. Renaissance Beauty: Cosmetics, Poison, and Plastic Surgery

Dirty Sexy History by Jessica Cale

Jan 3, 202401:01:01Society & Culture

For women in Renaissance Italy, beauty was everything: it could be a vocation, a way to get ahead, entertainment, or even a weapon. Women of all classes used cosmetics, and many were employed as beauticians, apothecaries...