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The Ugly Duchess : beauty and satire in the Renaissance

Title
The Ugly Duchess : beauty and satire in the Renaissance / Emma Capron ; with contributions by Martin Clayton and Charlotte Wytema.
Author
Capron, Emma
Publication
  • London : National Gallery Global, 2023.
  • [New Haven] : Yale University Press
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Metsys, Quentin, 1465 or 1466-1530.
  • Clayton, Martin, 1967-
  • Wytema, Charlotte
  • National Gallery (Great Britain), issuing body, host institution.
Description
80 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm
Summary
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. Exhibition: National Gallery, London, UK (16.03. ? 11.06.2023).
Alternative Title
Beauty and satire in the Renaissance
Subject
  • Metsys, Quentin, 1465 or 1466-1530 > Exhibitions
  • Metsys, Quentin, 1465 or 1466-1530
  • Painting > Belgium > Exhibitions
  • Painting
  • Belgium
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at The National Gallery, London, from March 16-June 11, 2023.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references(pages 73-77).
Call Number
ND673.M6
ISBN
  • 1857096940
  • 9781857096941
OCLC
  • 1346946362
  • on1346946362
  • SCSB-14596123
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries