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Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting
Arcimboldo Visual Jokes Natural History and StillLife Painting
Author: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
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 ar...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226426860
ISBN-10: 0226426866
Publication Date: 5/1/2010
Pages: 336
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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