Giovanni Battista Moroni 1520/4 - 1578
Portrait of a Man holding a Letter ('The Lawyer')probably 1570-5
NG742. Bought, 1865
Photo courtesy of The National Gallery
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Making Faces
ENGLAND
LONDON • The National Gallery • Ongoing
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Making Faces takes 22 works, 15 from the National Collection, and explores representations of the face from the profile portraits of 15th-century Italy to the abstracted portraits of Frank Auerbach (Julia, Laing Art Gallery).
The exhibition includes works by artists as diverse as Cranach, Goya, Hogarth, Renoir and Warhol, and focuses on the way in which artists have manipulated, idealised and distorted faces to indicate character, suggest type and communicate emotion.
The show culminates with a selection of narrative paintings that use faces to intensely expressive ends including Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast (National Gallery).
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