Impossible Nature : The World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Renaissance Lives
ISBN-10
1836392605
ISBN-13
9781836392606
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 7th, 2026
Print length
224 Pages
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600Renaissance artHistory of artHistory of art
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A reappraisal of Arcimboldo’s visionary, startlingly subversive art
Impossible Nature offers a fresh 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 unravelled the narratives that power wished to project. Through incisive visual readings, Jessica Keating shows the ways in which Arcimboldo’s work pictured and contemplated anew the codependency of art, nature and sovereignty, and reveals an artist far more conceptually daring – and more urgently relevant – than his playful surfaces suggest.
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