How does this painting link Leonardo da Vinci to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? The Ugly Duchess

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Britta New reveals surprising discoveries about 'The Ugly Duchess' and how the painting links Leonardo da Vinci to 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Restorer Britta New discusses the conservation treatment of Quinten Massys's 'The Ugly Duchess', revealing discoveries made during the process, and the painting's connection to sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and John Tenniel's illustrations for 'Alice in Wonderland.'
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@MademoiselleNuna Год назад

It never ceases to amaze me that we get to watch such high quality content worldwide FOR FREE!

@katarinatill4713 Год назад

Unbelievable! I thought it is a CONTEMPORARY painting/max.late 19th century,IMITATING old paintings in a funny way! But NO! Renaissance! REALLY HIT ME! WONDERFUL ! THANK YOU SO MUCH! 👏👏🤗

@papwithanhatchet902 Год назад

The dutchess is one of the creepiest illustrations in any literature I’ve ever seen and has haunted me ever since I first read Alice in Wonderland when I was 7 years old. Matsys’ grotesque Dutchess is even more disturbing.

@c.t5136 Год назад

This is one of my favourite paintings. I have her postcard, bought from the gallery, as she assists me in pondering upon life... Such an emotive painting. Thank you for sharing her as many just walk past with a giggle or uncomfortable glance.

@amyslingsby6947 Год назад

I have a postcard of this painting from one of my visits to the Gallery. Even printed in that form the details are amazing. I love it. Thank you for giving her the care she deserves.

@dethengine Год назад

Wow! That is amazing work. I can't imagine the pressure I would feel after being given the task of "fixing" a centuries old painting. She is a pro and an artist.

@runswithcows Год назад

I love this rendition of the grotesque, the Duchess is in so many ways perfect.

@jannetteberends8730 Год назад

This painting always gives me the idea that the duchess is a composition of different persons.

@skybug1706 Год назад

i agree it is a transfixing, gorgeous and respectable painting full of mastery. if the duchess were transformed into a beautiful, young form of herself she'd have qualities like the lovely restorer, which makes watching & listening to her appreciate the piece the way it deserves all the more enchanting

@oopurpledove Год назад

Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us ❤

@TheDefiniteArticle_ Год назад

I bet Leonardo da Vinci just did it for giggles, but now people look at it critically like it's a masterpiece, though I do admit it's very good.

@blobloblob1627 Год назад

Imagine spending months with so much dedication and hardwork just for something not serious.

@stevie-ray2020 Год назад

Thanks Britta for explaining the restoration process!

@echoscience5839 Год назад

I got a detention because I had this picture on a Google slide in 5th grade. Fun times.

@TheEvelynTurner Год назад

Amazing. Thank you. Another gem to add to my secondary school portrait project. Thank you.

@nationalgallery Год назад

You are very welcome!

@chickenlips74 Год назад

Very impressive, the whole restoration process, and all the knowledge and skill that goes into it, I really admire that! Please do more of these videos, I love to watch them. ❤

@nationalgallery Год назад

More to come! You can also check out the 'Behind the Scenes in Conservation' section on our channel.

@kirktucker7360 Год назад

Thank you Britta excellently described and those hands are truly wonderful

@prolificF8 Год назад

I am wondering why modern pigments (e.g. Cadmiums) are used to restore the background? Wouldn’t you want to keep with the pigments available at the time? Thank you for bringing this knowledge to the public. It increases appreciation for the arts.

@RinpochesRose Год назад

Exquisite painting. Excellent talk. 👍🏻

@isashax Год назад

Fascinating video. So much work!

@timkbirchico8542 Год назад

it must be a tiring and scary job, every stroke so crucial. though satisfying

@Beruthiel45 Год назад

Very interesting history, and despite the title the artist's skill is amazing. Thank you. 👍😊

@starcrib Год назад

Fascinating, marvelous experience ✨️

@arabellachampaq689 Год назад

Ms New, thank you so much. You are clearly very knowledgeable and it was a pleasure to view this.

@philreynolds2465 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely fascinating. What an amazing piece of art its breathtaking. The skills & enthusiasm of the people who look after it & the collection should be celebrated. Than you .

@lindagillies4939 Год назад

One of my favourite paintings, would love to get a print of this.

@Leatherargento Год назад

Massys definitely appreciated needlecraft and weaving as the arts that they were.

@Chloe_Stella Год назад

Amazing work!

@peckinpahlady Год назад

Wonderfully informative video. Thank you very much.

@franzrogar Год назад

I'd be nice to see the raking light of the final painting and the back of it. Did you choose a 3d-movement backing support like the Durero's "Addam" in the Prado Museum (Spain) or did you leave it with nothing?

@terfalicious Год назад

Nice work! Interesting subject and good presenter.

@petermikulski6651 Год назад

Awesome work!

@Sheepdog1314 Год назад

beautiful work

@funkykoval2099 Год назад

Hi. Is there a large digitalization available for further studies?

@izmargad Год назад

I'd like to have all three stages side by side because the differences are too subtle to an inexperienced eye.

@96powerpower Год назад

fascinating work

@465maltbie Год назад

Thanks or sharing, pretty interesting about the background. You could drive yourself crazy trying to sort out what has happened without any real documentation from the past.

@Truth.Keeper Год назад

Humans have a fascination with the extremes. In this case the other side of the beauty spectrum. Amazing work.

@mstalcup Год назад

There must be a connection between the paintings; the left hands of the duchess and the old man are identical in pose.

@sacredkinetics.lns.8352 Год назад

` 🕊️ Thak you for the educational and sophisticated explanation.

@rawbluecheese Год назад

The first copy of Alice in Wonderland I had as a child I got in a 2nd hand shop had that style duchess in the illustrations. Gutted I lost it.

@tommunyon2874 Год назад

Hands are indeed one of the more intimidating subjects to paint. One has to wonder about the choices that went into the creation of headgear in ages past.

@amolarteraffaella1412 Год назад

Non vedo attinenza con le pitture di Leonardo. Comunque è una bella scoperta,soprattutto perché ha a che fare con la favola di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie. Grazie

@blablblaaaaaaaaa Год назад

i know this sound crazy but look at the film the green man i think it's called,they show something of some kind of alchemical technology they had in the past for take some kind of photos,i really believed that there rally was something similar in some very restricted special "groups" .

@lususlove Год назад

Great job, she looks amazing :)

@motaman8074 Год назад

Very interesting. Thanks

@santiagofernandez880 Год назад

Very interesting.

@shable1436 Год назад

Art is beautiful even when it's ugly

@deepdivemusicreactions Год назад

amazing

@kylesnuffleupagus8591 Год назад

LOVE❤

@777lionfirex7 Год назад

Reminds me of the character off of alice madness returns

@luckyang8120 Год назад

Unique,

@amolarteraffaella1412 Год назад

La mano appoggiata oltre ad essere simile a quella del dipinto del 1513, si nota un richiamo alla mano di un dipinto di Antonello da Messina.

@gfrankenstein4425 Год назад

Who put Jerry Stiller in a painting?

@winny3455 Год назад

Surprise to see the duchess here. I saw the original in the Prado in Madrid in 2018. The story is that she lived in the same neighbourhood as Leonardo and he disliked her very much because she was a gossip and a disruptive influence in the community. He made this caricature of her and Massys made an oil painting many years later.

@candynewton4945 Год назад

Are you going to put another cradle on the back to preserve the square shape or put on a wood frame? How will painting stand on its own?🇺🇲

@nationalgallery Год назад

Hi @Candy Newton, thank you for your question! Although the panel has been thinned, it is painted on very high quality Baltic oak and unlikely to take up more than a very slight curvature. It is now stable and self-supporting so does not require a new fixed auxiliary support, it is however housed within a frame and this does give additional support for handling and during display. If you're interested in art restoration and conservation videos you can find more on our channel.

@janeknight3597 Год назад

There is a roof boss of the same shape and sex as this Duchess in Wantage parish church. This would have been known to Lewis Caroll under his Oxford personality.

@philsophkenny Год назад

❤

@steveg8322 Год назад

Add any number of years and she is us,hence the original title.The squeezed bosom a vestige of her youthful beauty and she herself a budding rose.

@stinew358 Год назад

She might have had a lighter background because she is lit with direct light which casts strong shadows. The man as far as I can see doesn't share her shadows.

@stinew358 Год назад

Though he might be heavily retouched to make him look more like how people in the past wanted to imagine paintings were done by the "true serious" masters

@giacogiaco5540 9 месяцев назад

She looks so much like my Mother In-law...

@user-pl6wk3wg6d 11 месяцев назад

Wonders never case! The 'restorer' explains everything very well, but her 'palette' appears a very 'limited' and somewhat 'simple' formula for an Old Master painting---one would have assumed that there were several 'glazes' to build up to the final finish. Otherwise a 'treat' to all art lovers fascinated (as were the Italian Renaissance artists) by the portrayal of character in old people's faces!

@westaussie965 Год назад

“Clearly one of the most beautiful paintings in the gallery”😂

@JelleSophie Год назад

Antwerp painters where the best!

@PureNRG2 Год назад

This woman’s job is akin to cutting priceless diamonds.

@kc3718 Год назад

i don't understand how removing parts of the picture, to suit modern taste, can be conserving ? That's editing ? Is it not possible that picture was part of a larger scene, and now it has been successively pruned to lose all the original meaning and balance ? We don't rebuild battle ruined castles or add parts to archaeological fragments....

@HBCrigs Год назад

Culture is quite an interesting thing, to me she’s gorgeous, to others she’s totally unnerving or disgusting .. there’s a lot we could look into on what causes that difference, but i think it’s quite an noteworthy one

@midnightchannel7759 Год назад

Striking, yes. "Beautiful...", perhaps not so much imho.

@jordanfalkowski6924 Год назад

Light Shad\g1,

@peterhamlet1415 Год назад

Too much pepper

@anneduff9294 Год назад

I can't believe that you removed the side strip of the painting "because it didn't serve any purpose, really"..

@beezysbeatz4924 Год назад

Let me guess Leo was transitioning to Leah?

@marianne6876 Год назад

Is that Lavrov? In Ukraine he is called 'The Sad Horse' 🤭😁

@LINKISDEAD Год назад

Id be upset if i knew ppl were altering/restoring my painting while i was gone. They didn't paint them to last forever. i only think age and decay add to the beauty of it. Like thats not your painting lol why are you touching it

@joseffinat966 Год назад

Nou RU-vid heeft weer niks over wat vertaling betreft maar als je ook nog naar een ratelfabriek moet luisteren is de lol er snel vanaf ,slechte vertoning als geheel