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The Ugly Duchess Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance to open at National Gallery in March 2023

This exhibition will shed new light on one of the most unforgettable paintings in the Gallery’s Collection: Quinten Massys’ An Old Woman. Defying Western canons of beauty and rules of propriety, this arresting figure became known as The Ugly Duchess after she inspired John Tenniel’s hugely popular illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

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