Arcimboldo

Author : Werner Kriegeskorte
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822859931

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Arcimboldo by Werner Kriegeskorte Pdf

Arcimboldo's art: Paintings that are full of references to ancient classical gods and goddesses Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) began his career as an artist in the glass workshops of the Milan Cathedral, where he designed glass windows depicting scenes from the lives of the saints. His talent soon caught the eye of 16th-century rulers, and he moved on to the imperial courts of Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolf II in Prague, where he created the scenes for his "Seasons." In Arcimboldo's allegorical paintings, Spring appears as a young man composed entirely of flowers, Summer as a composition of fruits, Autumn as a head made of grapes, and Winter as a gnarled old man twined with ivy. Arcimboldo remained true to the allegorical principles informing the artistic and philosophical world view of the 16th century. His paintings are not only full of references to ancient classical gods and goddesses, but above all they reflect the courtly cosmos of the art chambers and "wonder cabinets" in which countless exotic and bizarre objects were housed. With the decline of this allegorical world vision between the Renaissance and Mannerism, Arcimboldo was forgotten- only to be rediscovered by modern artists. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Author : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226426884

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Arcimboldo by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Pdf

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 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 the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an overview of Arcimboldo’s life and work, exploring the artist’s early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo then trains its focus on the celebrated composite heads, approaching them as visual jokes with serious underpinnings—images that poetically display pictorial wit while conveying an allegorical message. In addition to probing the humanistic, literary, and philosophical dimensions of these pieces, Kaufmann explains that they embody their creator’s continuous engagement with nature painting and natural history. He reveals, in fact, that Arcimboldo painted many more nature studies than scholars have realized—a finding that significantly deepens current interpretations of the composite heads. Demonstrating the previously overlooked importance of these works to natural history and still-life painting, Arcimboldo finally restores the artist’s fantastic visual jokes to their rightful place in the history of both science and art.

Author : Claudia Strand
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Grotesque in art
ISBN : 379132084X

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Hello, Fruit Face! by Claudia Strand Pdf

Explores the fanciful paintings of sixteenth-century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who composed faces with fruits, books, fish, vegetables, and other items.

Author : Tim Liardet
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781784105716

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Arcimboldo's Bulldog by Tim Liardet Pdf

In Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, the sitter's face is composed of organic matter. In subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole, imagination can transform the medium of expression itself. Tim Liardet's Arcimboldo's Bulldog: New and Selected Poems spans nine of his ten award-winning collections and adds new poems, fresh produce, reconfiguring his life's work to date. The book draws on his two T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collections The Blood Choir (2006) and The World Before Snow (2015). Vivid images, large abstractions, symbols, allegory, elegy, provocation, confession and lyric find a necessary place in his work. Arcimboldo's Bulldog records achievement and includes a promissory note towards his next collection.

Author : Diana Craig
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0765198916

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The Life and Works of Arcimboldo by Diana Craig Pdf

Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,William R. Newman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262026208

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The Artificial and the Natural by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,William R. Newman Pdf

These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.

Author : Liana De Girolami Cheney,Giuseppe Arcimboldi
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Painting, Italian
ISBN : 1781602522

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Arcimboldo by Liana De Girolami Cheney,Giuseppe Arcimboldi Pdf

If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman whose finely wrought canvases captured the imagination of his generation. In this fascinating book, Liana De Girolami Cheney takes a closer look at the critical history of Arcimboldo's work, from his initial popularity and the tragic obscurity that followed his death, to the ventual triumphant revival of his work and vision by Surrealist admirers of the 1920s.

Author : Hajo Düchting
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 3822897752

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Kandinsky Poster Book by Hajo Düchting Pdf

Author : Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho Homem,Maria de Fátima Lambert
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042016989

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Writing and Seeing by Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho Homem,Maria de Fátima Lambert Pdf

The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This unifying rationale secures the present collection's central position in the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways of reading that are based on a relational nexus. The intertextual, the intermedial, the intersemiotic are indeed foregrounded and combined in these essays, conceptually as much as in the critical practices favoured by the various contributions. Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative prominence in the volume - but the range of media and of approaches considered is broad enough to include photography, film, video, television, comic strips, animated film, public art, material culture. The backgrounds of contributors are likewise diverse - culturally, academically, linguistically. The volume combines contributions by prominent scholars and critics with essays by younger scholars, from a variety of backgrounds. The resulting plurality of perspective is indeed a source of new insights into the relations between writing and seeing, and it contributes to making this collection an exciting new contribution to word and image studies.

Author : Federico Zeri
Publisher : NDE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055814605

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Arcimboldo by Federico Zeri Pdf

Nogle værker af den italienske renæssancekunstner Guiseppe Arcimboldo

Author : Giuseppe Arcimboldi,Roland Barthes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Painters
ISBN : UVA:X004083528

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Arcimboldo by Giuseppe Arcimboldi,Roland Barthes Pdf

Author : Werner Kriegeskorte,Giuseppe Arcimboldi
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822896381

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527-1593 by Werner Kriegeskorte,Giuseppe Arcimboldi Pdf

This book details Arcimboldo's life, work, pictures and drawings. Also the work he did as a scientist.

Author : André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015017072938

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Arcimboldo the Marvelous by André Pieyre de Mandiargues Pdf

"Arcimboldo, a 16th century Italian artist [working in Vienna and Prague] is an artist with an indisputable claim, he single mindedly pursued his invention, the so-termed "composite head", applying it to numerous and varied subjects. Apt and witty combinations of animals, fish, fruit, vegetables, and a variety of other objects, all painted with meticulous realism, are fitted together into head and shoulder figures that sometimes have the look of portraits. He also devised compositions that can be hung upside down as well as right side up. Arcimboldo's major works were his numerous series on allegorical themes, especially the Four Seasons and the Four Elements."--Amazon.

Author : Giancarlo Maiorino
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271023201

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The Portrait of Eccentricity by Giancarlo Maiorino Pdf

In this companion to his The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque. In this interdisciplinary study, the term &"eccentricity&" refers to styles of playful extravagance. Maiorino focuses on the rhetorical figures of excess employed by a critic-historian (Giorgio Vasari), on the willful artificiality of a painter (Giuseppe Arcimboldo), and on the programmatic and interpretive commentary of a theorist (Gregorio Comanini). Maiorino draws subtle and persuasive connections between the images he discusses and the grotesque &"face&" of sixteenth-century poetics and rhetoric. He sets the mannerist and the grotesque against the philosophical seriousness of Renaissance humanism, interpreting them as a celebration of the ludic and fantastic possibilities of art itself. Aiming at pleasure rather than instruction, this art plays on the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, the credible and the impossible, taking delight in parody, excess, disjunction, and exaggeration.

Author : Twinkl Originals
Publisher : Twinkl
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Carrot Club by Twinkl Originals Pdf

The supermarket veggies feel left out when they discover a secret club that's for carrots only. Head down to the vegetable aisle, where a smart-thinking parsnip might just be the key to getting all the veggies into the club and teaching the carrots an important lesson. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).