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Is this grotesque woman merely a product of the artist's imagination? Curators Luke Syson and Susan Foister explain what lies behind this woman's ugliness.

 

From the National Gallery Podcast: Episode Twenty Five (November 2008)

 

Find out more about Quinten Massys, An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess'), about 1513

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