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MANTEGNA, Andrea: Grotesque Self-Portrait

🖼 Grotesque Self-Portrait, 1465-74
Walnut oil on plaster
Mantua, Italy

Distorted features and exaggerated proportions define this ink self-portrait, rendered with bold, deliberate strokes. Mantegna subverts Renaissance ideals of beauty, pioneering psychological intensity and artistic self-examination through grotesque imagery.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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