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Beautiful and Ugly by Adriaen van de Venne — VisualArtsDB

Beautiful and Ugly

Beautiful and Ugly

Adriaen van de Venne

1634

Dimensions: 30 × 37 cm
Genre: Allegorical painting
Museum: Private Collection

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allegories-and-symbols

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