The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque

by Giancarlo Maiorino

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271007273
• ISBN13: 9780271007274
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"