Portrait of Battista Sforza. The woman sports the typical high forehead that was fashionable at the time
Every era, as we know, has its own ideals of beauty .
Around the 1500s, in full Renaissance period , the ladies loved to show off a high forehead (let's also say huge) and rounded.
How did they get it?
The manuals of the time recommended "hard ways", or recipes based on quicklime and natural arsenic sulphide to be applied on the part to be “depilated”.
The results of the treatment can still be seen today in the numerous female portraits of the time that have come down to us, in which the ladies, more or less young, make a fine show of very high, white and smooth faces