Caricatures and deformities after Leonardo. Two distorted heads, 1645. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar.

Caricatures and deformities after Leonardo. Two distorted heads, 1645. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar.

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Caricatures and deformities after Leonardo. Two distorted heads, 1645. Depicts two deformed heads. The man on the left seems to be a caricature of Dante. He wears a cap with ear-flaps, a fold of which falls onto his right shoulder in three serrated ends. The woman on the right has her hair in a bag and has prominent neck muscles, and wears a décolleté dress.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Wenceslaus Hollar: Artist, engraver, printmaker, draughtsman
After
  1. Leonardo da Vinci: Italian: Artist, architect, inventor, painter, draughtsman
Subject
  1. Dante Alighieri: Italian: Author, poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political thinker

Medium
  1. Etching and wash

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe Czech Republic Bohemia

  1. 49 20 00 N , 014 30 00 E

Category Hierarchy

Artistic Representations Portraits


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4960x3160
File Size : 45,919kb


Aliases

  1. 36383
  1. 1869-0001-213
  1. 1160000259
  1. 3-016-158
  1. 3016158
  1. 36383

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