The Portrait of Eccentricity by Giancarlo Maiorino - 9780271023205

Name: The Portrait of Eccentricity by Giancarlo Maiorino - 9780271023205
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press

Pennsylvania State University Press

The Portrait of EccentricityArcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque\nAuthor(s): Giancarlo Maiorino\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271023205, 978-0271023205\nSynopsis\nIn 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.\n\nIn 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).\n\nMaiorino 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 grotesq.