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Beschreibung

A fresh introduction to the life and art of the sixteenth-century Italian painter.

Impossible Nature offers a reassessment of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Lombard painter whose fantastical composite heads became fixtures of the Habsburg court and emblems of imperial imagination. Moving beyond the familiar images, this book argues that court art was never merely decorative: it upheld power even as it subtly unraveled the narratives that power wished to project. Through incisive visual readings, Jessica Keating shows the ways in which Arcimboldo's work pictured and contemplated the codependency of art, nature, and sovereignty anew, revealing an artist far more conceptually daring--and more urgently relevant--than his playful surfaces suggest.

A fresh introduction to the life and art of the sixteenth-century Italian painter.

Impossible Nature offers a reassessment of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Lombard painter whose fantastical composite heads became fixtures of the Habsburg court and emblems of imperial imagination. Moving beyond the familiar images, this book argues that court art was never merely decorative: it upheld power even as it subtly unraveled the narratives that power wished to project. Through incisive visual readings, Jessica Keating shows the ways in which Arcimboldo's work pictured and contemplated the codependency of art, nature, and sovereignty anew, revealing an artist far more conceptually daring--and more urgently relevant--than his playful surfaces suggest.

Über den Autor

Jessica Keating is associate professor of early modern art history at Carleton College. She is the author of Animating Empire: Automata, The Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Renaissance Lives
ISBN-13: 9781836392606
ISBN-10: 1836392605
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Keating, Jessica
Hersteller: Reaktion Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 222 x 148 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Jessica Keating
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2026
Gewicht: 0,556 kg
Artikel-ID: 135997730

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