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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art
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
Hans Baldung Grien war einer der aussergewoehnlichsten deutschen
Kunstler der Renaissance. In einer Epoche tiefgreifender
Umwalzungen schuf er ein vielfaltiges und eigenstandiges Werk, das
bis heute fasziniert. Der Katalog begleitete die Grosse
Landesausstellung in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe und
umfasst rund 250 Exponate aus zahlreichen internationalen
Sammlungen, darunter intime Andachtsbilder, leuchtende Glasgemalde,
charaktervolle Portrats, humanistische Denkbilder und sinnliche
Akte, zu denen auch die beruhmten Sundenfalldarstellungen und die
drastischen Hexenszenen zahlen. Mit Einfuhrungen und
Exponat-Texten, die sich an ein breiteres Publikum richten, sowie
vielen Abbildungen bietet er einen einzigartigen UEberblick uber
das Werk dieses grossen Malers, Zeichners und Druckgrafikers.
This exhibition, being held at the musee du Louvre in Paris, and
its catalogue follow those dedicated to Florentine sculpture in the
early Renaissance, 1400-1460, that took place in 2013-14 (Le
Printemps de la Renaissance). The period scrutinised is 1460-1520
but the geographical coordinates are widened to include Northern
Italy (Venice, Milan, Pavia, Padua, Bologna) and Rome as the
artistic landscape of Italy becomes more complex. Some of the great
sculptors, in fact, travelled and their style and their ideas
influenced pre-existing local tradition. These new artistic
languages share a common characteristic: the relationship to
Greco-Roman Antiquity, especially in the representation of grace
and passion: the expression of pathos and the theatrical quality of
religious works, the symbolic richness of profane works and finally
the development of a new and refined style which will find its
highest expression in Roman classicism and in the work of
Michelangelo. The catalogue includes the works of, among others,
Donatello, Antonio Pollaiolo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Giovanfrancesco
Rustici, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Guido Mazzoni, Bartolomeo
Bellano, Cristoforo Solari, Tullio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, and
Bambaia, Sansovino, and Michelangelo. Text in Italian.
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