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Changing faces: 500 years of women (Paris)

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From Renaissance paintings by Titian, Raphael and Botticelli to Picasso’s Protected content of his lover, portraits of women made over the past Protected content stare back at us. Among them are virgins, housewives and goddesses: they look out from the canvas with a coy sideways glance, a challenging stare and a wistful gaze.

While many of the portraits conform to conventional ideas of beauty, some break the mould. The dishevelled hair of Da Vinci’s La Scapigliata from Protected content a stir, and Kazimir Malevich deconstructed the female torso in his series painted between Protected content 1933. It is a vision that is influencing cutting-edge fashion today.

Knud Merrild reinterpreted the movie star; Amedeo Modigliani elongated his sitter’s neck; Salvador Dalí carved out his sitter’s features from a fruit dish. It is a mesmerising journey through Protected content of Western art.

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