HISTORY OF ART
An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’)
Hanging alongside traditional Renaissance works by artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Jan Gossaert is a portrait that will almost certainly make you stop in your tracks. Far from the type of flattering likeness one might expect from a 16th-century portrait, , as she is affectionately known, can only be labelled as grotesque. Her eyes could be described as lively, but her bulging forehead, wide snub
