Arcimboldo
Subtitle: visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting
By: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226426860
Subjects: Arcimboldi, Giuseppe, -- 1527-1593
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Arcimboldo's Lombard origins; title: Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads; title: Learning, poetry, and art; title: Serious jokes; title: Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting; title: Nature studies; title: Arcimboldo and the origins of still life; title: Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life; title: Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art; title: Appendix 1. Arcimboldo, the Facchini, and popular culture; title: Appendix 2. Arcimboldo and Meda at Monza; title: Appendix 3. Concordance of Arcimboldo images from the Aldrovandi letter, Bologna; title: Dresden Kupferstich-kabinett ca 213, Vienna (cod. min. 42) and the 'museum' of Rudolf II (cod min. 129 and 130).