Abigail Thorn Instagram – Does your beauty belong to someone else? Join @theabigailthorn, who explores an etching from our collection, ‘Husbands bringing their ugly wives to the windmill to be transformed into beautiful ones’ and explains what it says about 17th century attitudes to women’s beauty.
The Cult of Beauty is open until 28 April and is free to visit. For more info, head to Wellcome.info/cult-of-beauty
Watch the full exhibition walkthrough with Abigail Thorn at youtube.com/wellcomecollection
[Alt text: Philosophy Tube founder Abigail Thorn is in The Cult of Beauty exhibition at Wellcome Collection. She is dressed in a pin-striped suit and is pointing out details in the etching as she describes various details in it. It shows a man carrying an old lady on his shoulders up to a room inside a windmill, where women are somehow magically transformed to become younger and more beautiful versions of themselves before being shoved unceremoniously out of a hole at the back of the windmill.]
Credit: Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful women, Paulus Fürst, 1650. Wellcome Collection. | Posted on 18/Mar/2024 15:47:21
