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The Ugly Duchess: Beauty & Satire In The Renaissance National Gallery – David Berridge

My starting hunch is that this is a man in drag, which might leave the breasts unexplained. They could be a man’s chest pushed up, then exaggerated a bit.

13 April 2023

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The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance

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’.

16 March 2023 - 11 June 2023

daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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