The exhibition "Beauty and Ugliness. Ideal, Real, and Caricature in the Renaissance" is on display in Milan's Gallerie d'Italia until October 18. Over 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and manuscripts, are on display from institutions such as the Louvre, the British Museum, the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Vatican Museums, with artists ranging from Leonardo to Michelangelo, Titian and Botticelli, to Northern masters such as Dürer and Brueghel. The fundamental premise is that beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin: while Botticelli painted the Birth of Venus, Leonardo da Vinci sketched grotesque heads, emphasizing features to explore deformity, aging, and vice. The exhibition commences with the rediscovery of classical antiquity and progresses from the "Belles" of the Renaissance to the grotesque and caricature. The curator elucidates that beauty and ugliness are ultimately symbolically unified. A reflection that is more relevant than ever in an era fascinated with the topic of beauty.