Beauty and Ugliness are themes that resonate and fascinate in every era – universal concepts, yet their forms and tastes can culturally vary over time. How did the Renaissance thinkers conceive of these ideas? Art, through the power of the image, is the best way to discover them. The exhibition’s approach is unprecedented: it traces how the standards of Beauty and Ugliness evolved from the last quarter of the 15th century to the end of the 16th century—key transitional periods—by juxtaposing in a rich and compelling confrontation the ways in which these two subjects were interpreted by the greatest Italian artists and their counterparts from Northern Europe. We also discover that Beauty became an increasingly important social topic during this time, as evidenced by the growing number of publications... Read more