Entirely human: The power of the Renaissance portrait

Discover a beloved painting and a lesser-known Italian Renaissance artist at this short, energising online talk. It starts with a modestly sized portrait of a girl with a determined chin and golden hair. This 15th-century ' Portrait of a Girl ' is from the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio. Sarah Dunant, acclaimed journalist, lecturer and author of 'The Birth of Venus', has spent many hours in front of this painting in her quest to recreate the richness of Renaissance Italy and to bring alive the journey of women in an era where the most famous names still belong to men. Learn to look differently at Renaissance portraits. Celebrate Domenico Ghirlandaio and the utterly human faces he painted. And perhaps fall in love with this striking image too.