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-[[Image:Matsys Ugly Duchess.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Ugly Duchess]]'' by [[Matsys]]]]+{| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5"
-[[Image:Salvator Rosa The Witch.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[The Witch]]'' by [[Salvator Rosa]], [[1640]] - [[1649]]]]+| style="text-align: left;" |
 +"[[Love is blind]], as the saying is, Cupid's blind, and so are all his followers. ''[[Quisquis amat ranam, ranam putat esse Dianam]]''. Every lover admires his mistress, though she be very deformed of herself, ill-favoured, wrinkled, pimpled, pale, red, yellow, tanned, tallow-faced, have a swollen juggler's platter face, or a thin, lean, chitty face, have clouds in her face, be crooked, dry, bald, goggle-eyed, blear-eyed, or with staring eyes, she looks like a squissed cat, hold her head still awry, heavy, dull, hollow-eyed, black or yellow about the eyes, or squint-eyed, sparrow-mouthed, Persian hook-nosed, have a sharp fox nose, a red nose, China flat, great nose, nare simo patuloque, a nose like a promontory, gubber-tushed, rotten teeth, black, uneven, brown teeth, beetle browed, a witch's beard, her breath stink all over the room, her nose drop winter and summer, with a Bavarian poke under her chin, a sharp chin, lave eared, with a long crane's neck, which stands awry too, pendulis mammis, "her dugs like two double jugs," or else no dugs, in that other extreme, bloody fallen fingers, she have filthy, long unpared nails, scabbed hands or wrists, a tanned skin, a rotten carcass, crooked back, she stoops, is lame, splay-footed, "as slender in the middle as a cow in the waist," gouty legs, her ankles hang over her shoes, her feet stink, she breed lice, a mere changeling, a very monster, an oaf imperfect, her whole complexion savours, a harsh voice, incondite gesture, vile gait, a vast virago, or an ugly tit, a slug, a fat fustilugs, a truss, a long lean rawbone, a skeleton, a sneaker (si qua latent meliora puta), and to thy judgment looks like a merd in a lantern, whom thou couldst not fancy for a world, but hatest, loathest, and wouldst have spit in her face, or blow thy nose in her bosom, remedium amoris to another man, a dowdy, a slut, a scold, a nasty, rank, rammy, filthy, beastly quean, dishonest peradventure, obscene, base, beggarly, rude, foolish, untaught, peevish, Irus' daughter, Thersites' sister, Grobians' scholar, if he love her once, he admires her for all this, he takes no notice of any such errors, or imperfections of body or mind, Ipsa haec—delectant, veluti Balbinum Polypus Agnae,; he had rather have her than any woman in the world. If he were a king, she alone should be his queen, his empress. O that he had but the wealth and treasure of both the Indies to endow her with, a carrack of diamonds, a chain of pearl, a cascanet of jewels, (a pair of calfskin gloves of four-pence a pair were fitter), or some such toy, to send her for a token, she should have it with all his heart; he would spend myriads of crowns for her sake. Venus herself, [[Panthea]], Cleopatra, Tarquin's Tanaquil, Herod's [[Mariamne I|Mariamne]], or [[Mary of Burgundy]], if she were alive, would not match her." --''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' by Robert Burton
 +|}
 +[[Image:Matsys Ugly Duchess.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Ugly Duchess]]'' by Quentin Matsys]]
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-The [[ugly]] [[woman]] is a surprisingly [[common figure]] in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries. +The [[ugly]] [[woman]] is a surprisingly [[common figure]] in [[Italian poetry]], one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries.
 +==Examples==
 +*''[[The Ugly Duchess]]'' by Quentin Matsys
 +*''[[The Witch (Salvator Rosa)]]'' (1640 - 1649) by Salvator Rosa
== See also == == See also ==
*[[Blazon of the Ugly Tit]] *[[Blazon of the Ugly Tit]]
*"[[Ugly Woman]]", a popular calypso song *"[[Ugly Woman]]", a popular calypso song
 +*[[Loathly lady]]
 +*[[Old woman]]
*[[Abjection]] *[[Abjection]]
- +*[[At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman]]
 +*[[Ugly man]]
== Gallery == == Gallery ==
<gallery caption="Sample gallery" widths="100px" heights="100px" perrow="3"> <gallery caption="Sample gallery" widths="100px" heights="100px" perrow="3">
Image:Matsys Ugly Duchess.jpg Image:Matsys Ugly Duchess.jpg
-Image:Salvator Rosa The Witch.jpg+Image:Grotesque_head_by_Da_Vinci.jpg
-Image:Old woman with purse 1507.jpg +
</gallery> </gallery>
== References == == References ==
*''[[The Ugly Woman|The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque]]''( 2005) by Patrizia Bettella *''[[The Ugly Woman|The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque]]''( 2005) by Patrizia Bettella
-*''[[On_Ugliness#The_Ugliness_of_Woman_from_Antiquity_to_the_Baroque_Period|On Ugliness]]'' (2007) by [[Umberto Eco]].+*''[[On_Ugliness#The_Ugliness_of_Woman_from_Antiquity_to_the_Baroque_Period|On Ugliness]]'' (2007) by Umberto Eco.
-*''The Female [[Grotesque]]: Risk, Excess and Modernity'' (1994) - [[Mary J. Russo]]+
-*[[Horror and the Monstrous Feminine]] by [[Barbara Creed]].+
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"Love is blind, as the saying is, Cupid's blind, and so are all his followers. Quisquis amat ranam, ranam putat esse Dianam. Every lover admires his mistress, though she be very deformed of herself, ill-favoured, wrinkled, pimpled, pale, red, yellow, tanned, tallow-faced, have a swollen juggler's platter face, or a thin, lean, chitty face, have clouds in her face, be crooked, dry, bald, goggle-eyed, blear-eyed, or with staring eyes, she looks like a squissed cat, hold her head still awry, heavy, dull, hollow-eyed, black or yellow about the eyes, or squint-eyed, sparrow-mouthed, Persian hook-nosed, have a sharp fox nose, a red nose, China flat, great nose, nare simo patuloque, a nose like a promontory, gubber-tushed, rotten teeth, black, uneven, brown teeth, beetle browed, a witch's beard, her breath stink all over the room, her nose drop winter and summer, with a Bavarian poke under her chin, a sharp chin, lave eared, with a long crane's neck, which stands awry too, pendulis mammis, "her dugs like two double jugs," or else no dugs, in that other extreme, bloody fallen fingers, she have filthy, long unpared nails, scabbed hands or wrists, a tanned skin, a rotten carcass, crooked back, she stoops, is lame, splay-footed, "as slender in the middle as a cow in the waist," gouty legs, her ankles hang over her shoes, her feet stink, she breed lice, a mere changeling, a very monster, an oaf imperfect, her whole complexion savours, a harsh voice, incondite gesture, vile gait, a vast virago, or an ugly tit, a slug, a fat fustilugs, a truss, a long lean rawbone, a skeleton, a sneaker (si qua latent meliora puta), and to thy judgment looks like a merd in a lantern, whom thou couldst not fancy for a world, but hatest, loathest, and wouldst have spit in her face, or blow thy nose in her bosom, remedium amoris to another man, a dowdy, a slut, a scold, a nasty, rank, rammy, filthy, beastly quean, dishonest peradventure, obscene, base, beggarly, rude, foolish, untaught, peevish, Irus' daughter, Thersites' sister, Grobians' scholar, if he love her once, he admires her for all this, he takes no notice of any such errors, or imperfections of body or mind, Ipsa haec—delectant, veluti Balbinum Polypus Agnae,; he had rather have her than any woman in the world. If he were a king, she alone should be his queen, his empress. O that he had but the wealth and treasure of both the Indies to endow her with, a carrack of diamonds, a chain of pearl, a cascanet of jewels, (a pair of calfskin gloves of four-pence a pair were fitter), or some such toy, to send her for a token, she should have it with all his heart; he would spend myriads of crowns for her sake. Venus herself, Panthea, Cleopatra, Tarquin's Tanaquil, Herod's Mariamne, or Mary of Burgundy, if she were alive, would not match her." --The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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