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strange but beautiful drawings
Girl grotesque
This pencil sketch of a brass doorknocker in the Wallace Collection, London, was developed into the girl grotesque painting also on this web site.
Grotesques are a form of decoration inspired by ancient Roman works by a painter who was named, appropriately enough, Fabullus. These paintings were rediscovered in about 1480 in buried rooms once belonging to Nero's palace. Because the rooms were believed to be grottoes, these paintings became known as grotesques.