Guido Mazzoni (attrib.), Laughing Child (possibly Henry VIII.)
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Diego Velázquez, The Triumph of Bacchus, 1628-29
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Cranach the Elder. The Ill-matched Couple, c. 1530
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Isabel Bishop
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Hendrick Goltzius
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Jacob Adriaensz Backer
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Johannes Moreelse, Democritus, 1630
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Matthias Grünewald
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Gerrit Van Honthorst, The Merry Fiddler, 1623
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Yue Minjun
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Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis) 1934
Yue Minjun, The sun, 2000
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Giuliano Vangi, 2012
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When we laugh, we are at our most vulnerable; we show our teeth, often crooked or broken, our cheeks puff out like apples, our noses become prominent. But the grotesque can have the spirit of the carnivalesque


