Search -
The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque
The Portrait of Eccentricity Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque Author:Giancarlo Maiorino An examination of the links between Renaissance and modern versions of the grotesque, which discusses the grotesque face of 16th-century poetics and rhetoric, and uses the term "eccentricity" to refer to styles of playful extravagance both then and now.