See how the Beauty looks.
The high blush of her cheeks, the golden necklace swooping down over her low neckline, the warm puff of her thick fur sleeves. Her eyes, frank and confident yet also turning modestly to the side. The hair that might have taken hours for some maidservant to arrange. Colors that pop but also blend -- blue and gold in her dress, rouge on her cheeks and lips, pale yellow-white on her bosom, browns and oranges to give her brighter colors a more brilliant glow. Her face, with the becoming roundness of her jaw and chin, is an almost perfect oval. Her eyebrows are slicing arches. Her forehead, pale as powder, has a slight bulge of implied intelligence.
After nearly half a millennium, "La Bella" -- or "that portrait of that woman in the blue dress," as the Duke