An extraordinary and alienating exhibition of deformed faces, anatomical exaggerations, physiognomic investigations, caricatured figures and galleries of human characters.

The new ambitious project of the institution led by Inti Ligabue - scheduled in the lagoon city at Palazzo Loredan, headquarters of the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts from 28 January to 27 April 2023 - projects us into a world as alienating as it is intriguing, collateral with respect to the beautiful, the sublime or the ideal object favored by painting

A fascinating journey, which identifies a line of 'northern' continuity from Leonardo's charged and grotesque heads to the caricatures of Anton Maria Zanetti and Giambattista Tiepolo in 18th-century Venice. An extraordinary and alienating exhibition of deformed faces, anatomical exaggerations, physiognomic investigations, caricatured figures and galleries of "human characters". Also exhibited are 18 autograph drawings by Leonardo including - for the first time in Italy - some sheets from the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.