Home Announcements Best seller Special offers Previews Arguments Merchandising Great Exhibition Catalogs Digital Store Bookshop Club Skira Upcoming events Skira exhibitions Partner Contact us Search for Advanced Search HomeArcimboldo Browse the book Price: € 35.00 Web Offer: € 18.90 Discount: 46% Free with Skira points: 151 With this purchase you can accumulate 19 Skira Points add Curators: Sylvia Ferino-Pagden Necklace: Ancient art. Catalogs Publisher: Skira Topic: Special Offers, Ancient Art, Catalogs Tongue: Italian Year: 2011 ISBN: 885721010 Dimensions: 24 x 28 cm Pages: 392 Color illustrations: 419 Tips: Arcimboldo Federica Armiraglio The world of Arcimboldo Cristina Cappa Legora; Giacomo Veronesi Arcimboldo and the melancholy king Angelo Maria Ripellino Arcimboldo (1527 - 1593) Sylvia Ferino-Pagden Arcimboldo Milanese artist between Leonardo and Caravaggio add “This is how Arcimboldo proceeds, from games to great rhetoric, from rhetoric to magic, from magic to wisdom” (Roland Barthes, 1985). “This is how Arcimboldo proceeds, from games to great rhetoric, from rhetoric to magic, from magic to wisdom” (Roland Barthes, 1985). The personality of Giuseppe Arcimboldo in the past as today has been crowned with fame and success. His extraordinary works - whims and bizarre - world famous are present in advertising and on the web. Hers is therefore a figure of the present as well as of the past. Arcimboldo himself, returning to Milan from Prague in 1587, takes care to consolidate his fame by dictating his artist's exploits at the court of the Habsburgs to his friends, artists, humanists and historians (including Paolo Morigia, Giovan Paolo Lomazzo and Gregorio Comanini). . His name was soon forgotten, however, and in the following centuries his work was labeled as "Leonardo's school". There is no doubt that the master of Vinci is at the basis of Arcimboldo's culture: but from this inexhaustible source of inspiration the Milanese artist draws the moves to develop a very personal style. The cultural context in which Arcimboldo moves, his apprenticeship and his first works in the Milan area have so far been considered as a prologue to an artistic activity which took place mainly outside Italy. The Milanese and Lombard artistic tradition, on the other hand, played a fundamental role in the formulation of Arcimboldo's famous compound heads and “bizarre”, as Lombard scholars have repeatedly pointed out: but these ideas have not so far been accepted by international research. The monographic exhibitions held so far have celebrated the great master in his role as court artist (for a long time in the service of the Habsburg emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II, in Vienna and Prague) and as a precursor of modern art. This monograph wants to restore Arcimboldo to its original context, to understand the reasons for his call to the Habsburg court (naturalistic studies, choreographies for processions and parties, or even portraits), to clarify the cultural roots of his composed heads, and finally deepen the role played by the artist in the development of the genres of still life and "ridiculous paintings". Curated by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Director of the Art Gallery of the Kunshistorisches Museum in Vienna (which lends the largest group of works) in collaboration with a prestigious Scientific Committee formed by Giacomo Berra, Giulio Bora, Chiara Buss, Silvio Leydi, Robert Miller, Giuseppe Olmi, Caterina Pirina, Francesco Porzio, Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, the volume Arcimboldo. Milanese artist between Leonardo and Caravaggio introduces the reader to sixteenth-century Milan, in a fascinating journey through drawings, paintings and precious objects from the Milanese artisan workshops, at the time very famous for the quality and excellence of their artistic artefacts. Exhibition catalog: Milan, Palazzo Reale 10 February - 22 May 2011 © 2016 Skira publisher All rights reserved Online shop You are viewing the contents of the catalog of Skira publisher Italy Skira About us Skira Group History Distribution Press office Work with us Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest YouTube Instagram Legal notices FAQ site map Credits