METAPHOR IN THE BAROQUE AND ONE LOOK AT THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY

Abstract

The Renaissance woman was a fair-haired beauty with red lips and a shining forehead and
other elements that corresponded to the ideal of female beauty. She was always compared
to the sun. In the Baroque era, that ideal of female beauty was significantly changed. In
Baroque literature, women are black-haired, pale-skinned - "dark as night". However,
writers from Dubrovnik used such baroque metaphors and other figures of speech only to
surprise, amaze and shock the readers. Dživo Bunić, Dživo Gundulić and Ignjat Đurđević
in their poetic works described the new ideal of female beauty, established in the 17th
century, but they also cherished the Renaissance ideal. Authors returned to this principle
when they wanted to suggest, first of all, their moral purity and spiritual beauty in their
poetic works. The paper analyze poems that depict the ideals of female beauty and
interpret various works of art that can be used to create a bridge between the Renaissance
and Baroque periods and our time.