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For three generations, the Massys family contributed their skills and efforts to the flourishing field of northern European art.
Today, were hopping back to near the start of the sixteenth century to look a piece by Quentin Messys painted in around 1513 and it carries the title “An Old Woman” or “The Ugly Duchess”…
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance (16 March – 11 June 2023): https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-ugly-duchess-beauty-and-satire-in-the-renaissance
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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
”The Ugly Duchess” by Quinten Metsys (c. 1513). Held by the National Gallery.
The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I by Quentin Metsys the Younger (1583). Held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale
Detail of: Queen Isabeau receiving Christine de Pisan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, attributed to the Master of the Cité des Dames and workshop and to the Master of the Duke of Bedford (c.1410–1414). Held by the British Library; Harley 4431.
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal from the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden (c.1450). Held by the Getty Museum.
Portrait of Elizabeth of York by an unknown artist (late 16th century, based on a work of c.1500). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
An Old Man in Profile by Quentin Massys (c.1517). Held in an unnamed private collection.
Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in the first edition of “In Praise of Folly”, a copy owned by Erasmus himself. Held by the Kunstmuseum Basel.
A Grotesque Head attributed to a student of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1480-1510). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.
Illustration of the Duchess and her Family by John Tenniel, published in 1865 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Scanned from "The collected verse of Lewis Carroll". New York, The Macmillan Co., 1933.
Woodcut of Margaret, Countess of Tyrol by Johann Schultes the Younger (1621). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.
“Ill-Matched Lovers” by Quinten Metsys (c.1520-1525). Held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Exhibition website screenshot: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-ugly-duchess-beauty-and-satire-in-the-renaissance
Quoted texts:
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/quinten-massys-an-old-woman-the-ugly-duchess
https://christopherpjones.medium.com/why-would-an-artist-paint-a-picture-like-this-f581a2b7a111
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/oct/11/art-painting
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pagets-disease-bone/#:~:text=Paget's%20disease%20of%20bone%20disrupts,under%2050%20years%20of%20age.
Also consulted, were:
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
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