De’ Visi Mostruosi and caricatures. From Leonardo da Vinci to Bacon

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Curated by Pietro C. Marani

De’ visi mostruosi non parlo, perché senza fatica si tengono a mente, (I am not talking about the monstrous faces, because they are easily remembered):so we read among Leonardo da Vinci’s annotations in the Codice Atlantico and the Trattato della pittura. Surely the “exaggerated heads” or “grotesques,” deformed faces or caricatured figures made by the great artists active in northern Italy between the 16th and 18th centuries, displayed in the extraordinary exhibition promoted in Venice by the Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation, will remain impressed on visitors’ minds.

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This new abitious project leads us us into a world as alienating as it is intriguing, collateral to the beautiful, the sublime or the ideal object favored by art in general.

A fascinating journey, which identifies a ‘northern’ line of continuity from Leonardo’s caricatured, grotesque heads to the caricatures of Anton Maria Zanetti and Giambattista Tiepolo in 18th-century Venice.

An extraordinary and disturbing exhibition of deformed faces, anatomical exaggerations, physiognomic investigations, caricature figures and galleries of “human characters.”
Also on display 18 drawings by Leonardo including – for the first time in Italy – some sheets from the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.

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