Exposition : « The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance », Londres, National Gallery, du 16 mars au 11 juin 2023
This exhibition looks again at one of the best-known faces in the National Gallery: Quinten Massys’s 16th-century depiction of an old woman, a painting known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’. For the first time, this work is displayed with a related drawing after Leonardo da Vinci, showing their shared interest in fantastical, ‘grotesque’ heads and the vibrant artistic exchange between Italy and Northern Europe in the Renaissance. ‘The Ugly Duchess’ is reunited in the exhibition with...