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closed De' Monstrous Faces and Caricatures

Curated by: Pietro C. Marani

The show

An extraordinary and alienating exhibition of deformed faces, anatomical exaggerations, physiognomic investigations, caricatured figures and galleries of human characters.

I am not speaking of monstrous faces, because they are kept in mind without difficulty , so we read in Leonardo da Vinci 's annotations in the Codex Atlanticus and in the Treatise on Painting. The many "loaded heads" or "grotesques", the deformed faces , the exaggerated or caricatural figures created by the great artists active in northern Italy between the 16th and 18th centuries, exhibited in the extraordinary exhibition promoted in Venice by the Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation .


The new ambitious project of the institution led by Inti Ligabue - scheduled in the lagoon city at Palazzo Loredan, headquarters of the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts from 28 January to 27 April 2023 - projects us into a world as alienating as it is intriguing, collateral with respect to the beautiful, the sublime or the ideal object favored by painting

A fascinating journey, which identifies a line of 'northern' continuity from Leonardo's charged and grotesque heads to the caricatures of Anton Maria Zanetti and Giambattista Tiepolo in 18th-century Venice. An extraordinary and alienating exhibition of deformed faces, anatomical exaggerations, physiognomic investigations, caricatured figures and galleries of "human characters". Also exhibited are 18 autograph drawings by Leonardo including - for the first time in Italy - some sheets from the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.

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San Marco, 3319
30124 Venice

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