Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches
Until Tues 13 May
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Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches (c.1655) is the centrepiece of a display that reveals insights to attitudes towards morality and race.
Displayed alongside the painting will be John Bulwer’s famous book 'Anthrometamorphosis: the man transform’d or, the artificiall changeling' (1653) and Francis Hawkin’s 'A discourse upon some innovations of habits and dressings against powdring of hair, Naked-Breasts, Black Spots and other unseemly Customes',1653, on loan from Trinity College, Cambridge. Both books bear illustrations that are similar to the painting and give context to the potential reason for the paintings creation.
There will also be a short video about the conservation process and research project the painting has undergone at Yale Center for British Art.
Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park, Warwick
10am-4.30pm £0 - £21.80