LEADER 03388nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910785272803321 005 20230913231548.0 010 $a1-282-77576-6 010 $a9786612775765 010 $a0-226-42688-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226426884 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044968 035 $a(EBL)713790 035 $a(OCoLC)664571991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412063 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12148422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412063 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10365906 035 $a(PQKB)10288200 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713790 035 $a(DE-B1597)535670 035 $a(OCoLC)1135614197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226426884 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL713790 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10412764 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277576 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044968 100 $a20090518d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArcimboldo $evisual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting /$fThomas DaCosta Kaufmann 210 1$aChicago ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 311 0 $a0-226-42687-4 311 0 $a0-226-42686-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-305) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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). 330 $aIn 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 606 $aART / General$2bisacsh 610 $anatural history, historical, painting, art, artistic, artists, visual, visualization, jokes, comedy, comedic, archaeology, paintings, 16th century, biography, biographical, life story, witty, allegory, composite heads, still-life, italian, italy, imaginative portraits, fruits, vegetables, fish, grotesque symbolical compositions, human forms, whimsical, representation. 615 7$aART / General. 676 $a759.5 700 $aKaufmann$b Thomas DaCosta$0295200 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785272803321 996 $aArcimboldo$93753968 997 $aUNINA