Ugly woman
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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 Ugly Duchess by Quentin Matsys
- The Witch[1] (1640 - 1649) by Salvator Rosa
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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