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Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting
Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann
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Description for Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting
Hardcover. In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. This title offers an overview of Arcimboldo's life and work, exploring the artist's early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Num Pages: 288 pages, 39 colour plates, 43 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 224 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1742.
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 strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art's most striking oeuvres. The first major study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, "Arcimboldo" tells the singular story of their creation. Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an ... Read more
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 strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art's most striking oeuvres. The first major study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, "Arcimboldo" tells the singular story of their creation. Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226426860
SKU
V9780226426860
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About Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is the Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His many books include Toward a Geography of Art, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting
"Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's careful, steady-going, and well-researched study... is a very good guide to one of the high cultural moments of central Europe." - New York Times, on The School of Prague "Kaufmann's book... reveals possible steps along pathways whose pursuit may transform future ways of seeing." - Geographical Reviews, on Toward a Geography of Art"