Arcimboldo : visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting /

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In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man's chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a neck. All sorts of natural phenomena come together on canvas and panel to assemble the stra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Temas:
Arcimboldi, Giuseppe, > 1527-1593.
Arcimboldi, Giuseppe, > 1527-1593
ART > History > General.
natural history, historical, painting, art, artistic, artists, visual, visualization, jokes, comedy, comedic, archaeology, paintings, 16th century, biography, biographical, life story, witty, allegory, composite heads, still-life, italian, italy, imaginative portraits, fruits, vegetables, fish, grotesque symbolical compositions, human forms, whimsical, representation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Arcimboldo's Lombard origins
  • Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads
  • Learning, poetry, and art
  • Serious jokes
  • Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting
  • Nature studies
  • Arcimboldo and the origins of still life
  • Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life
  • Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art
  • Appendix 1. Arcimboldo, the Facchini, and popular culture
  • Appendix 2. Arcimboldo and Meda at Monza
  • Appendix 3. Concordance of Arcimboldo images from the Aldrovandi letter, Bologna
  • Dresden Kupferstich-kabinett ca 213, Vienna (cod. min. 42) and the 'museum' of Rudolf II (cod min. 129 and 130).

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