[Rarebooks] FS: a 16th Century Twilight-Zone Artist

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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Barthes, Roland. "ARCIMBOLDO"

Milan; Franco Maria Ricci: 1980.
One of 3000 numbered copies.

An elegantly-realized survey of the “surrealist” paintings of the 16th
century court portraitist of Emperor Maximilian II. It was his “composed”
heads- portraits made up of animals, flowers, vegetables and other natural
objects, which brought him a far more lasting fame than any official
portrait he ever did of a well-heeled courtier. His poetical, allegorical
portraits of the Seasons, Elements, and other subjects were brilliant
puzzles, not only visually but symbolically.

Many Baroque artists could make you wonder if you had crossed some hidden
boundary into the land of the terminally strange, a frontier only
rediscovered some 400 years later by Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali, but
Arcimboldo was the Master of Masters of such effects, an entire Twilight
Zone in himself.

Hardcover. 9”x14”, 175 pages, b/w and many tipped-in color plates, 1
folding plate; pictorial covers; book fine. Clamshell case with some wear,
corner bent inwards. [09880] $250.00

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