Prado's first post-lockdown show reignites debate over misogyny

Exhibition exploring how women have been treated in art world runs into criticism

The last face that meets visitors to the Prado's first post-lockdown exhibition is one of the very few that appears to look the spectator squarely in the eye.

The cool gaze of the Portuguese-Spanish artist Maria Roesset - free of guilt, shame, saccharine virtue or predatory intent - comes as something of a relief after the sanctimonious, salacious and often sad series of pictures that precede it.