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The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance Details

Publisher
National Gallery Company Ltd
ISBN 13
9781857096941
ISBN 10
1857096940
Book Description
Quinten Massys’ An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’) is one of the Renaissance’s most famous faces. In a fresh review of the iconic image, this book unveils the painting’s original context: its status as a pioneering work of satirical art, its debt to Leonardo da Vinci’s grotesque drawings, and what it tells us about the period’s complex attitudes towards women, age and normative beauty.  The painting and its partner, An Old Man, are parodic portraits that mock the supposed lust and vanity of older women. Yet a closer look also reveals a figure defiantly flouting conventions and a painter subverting artistic expectations.  The publication traces the eventful afterlife and enduring power of this seminal image: how she gained her nickname ‘The Ugly Duchess’ and inspired John Tenniel’s much-loved illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), capturing the imagination of generations of readers.  Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press  Exhibition Schedule:National Gallery, London, 16 March–11 June 2023
About the Author
Emma Capron is Associate Curator of Renaissance Painting at the National Gallery, London.Martin Clayton is Head of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection Trust.Charlotte Wytema is the Simon Sainsbury Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery, London.
Language
English
Author
Emma Capron
Publication Date
44999
Number of Pages
80 pages

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