Grotesque: They make beautiful things about ugly people

Christelle Oyiri
2023-06-08

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4 min

The wanderings of a life-size, anthropomorphic object at the Louvre Museum’s collection of Egyptian antiquities. Marginalized by its misshapen appearance, the object — a distorted, mask-like terracotta figurine from the Roman period — attracts a group of friends hanging around the Museum.