Ugly woman
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| [[Image:Matsys Ugly Duchess.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Ugly Duchess]]'' by [[Matsys]]]] | [[Image:Matsys Ugly Duchess.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Ugly Duchess]]'' by [[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. | ||
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| + | *''[[The Witch]]'' by [[Salvator Rosa]], 1640 - 1649 | ||
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| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| *[[Blazon of the Ugly Tit]] | *[[Blazon of the Ugly Tit]] | ||
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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.
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Examples
- The Witch by Salvator Rosa, 1640 - 1649
See also
- Blazon of the Ugly Tit
- "Ugly Woman", a popular calypso song
- Loathly lady
- Old woman
- Abjection
- At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
- Ugly man
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References
- The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque( 2005) by Patrizia Bettella
- On Ugliness (2007) by Umberto Eco.
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