In this episode of Art After Dark, multimedia artist Lindsey Mendick visits a show of Renaissance satirical works at the National Gallery.
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance consists of thirteen artworks, ranging from ceramics to paintings and includes one of the best-known faces in the National Gallery: Quinten Massys’s 16th-century depiction of an elderly woman, a painting known as The Ugly Duchess.