A portrait of a woman with wrinkled skin, ... “The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance” runs March 16 - June 11 at the National Gallery in London. Ad Feedback.

New Analysis Reveals That the Famed ‘Ugly Duchess’ Renaissance Painting May Not Depict a Woman After All. As is so often the case with 16th-century works, the answer lies with Leonardo da Vinci.

And Emma Capron, associate curator of Renaissance painting at the museum, made the intelligent decision to emphasize the humor of “An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’),” a portrait by Quinten ...

The Duchess was reunited with its most probable righthand counterpart, Massys’s more realistic “Portrait of an Old Man” (c. 1517), for the first time for the exhibition.

Also known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’, Massys’ painting has historically been considered a depiction of a woman with a bone disease . Jump to content. US Edition Change.

Yet, despite her appearance, the portrait — more often referred to as “The Ugly Duchess” — is so captivating that it made the old woman one of the most unforgettable figures of her time.

A new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is taking another look at Flemish artist Quinten Massys's mystifying 1513 painting An Old Woman, p ...

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish artist Quinten Massys might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s most atypical. With wrinkled ...