Arcimboldo 1526-1593 / edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden

Contents : Giuseppe Arcimboldo : court artist, philosopher, "rhétoriqueur", magician or an entertainer? / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- "... il gran pittore Giuseppe Arcimboldi" on the construcion of Arcimboldo's fame / Andreas Beyer -- Catalogue -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Milan : Documents and hypoteses / Silvio Leydi -- Catalogue -- Art and culture at the court of Emperor Maximilian II / Karl Schultz -- Der Rom. Kay. Mt. conterfeter. Giuseppe Arcimboldo as portrait-painter to the Holy Roman Emperor -- Catalogue -- Arcimboldo's composite heads : origins and invention / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Arcimboldo as "conterfetter" of nature / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- Arcimboldo and Ulisse Aldrovandi / Manfred Staudinger -- Anamorphous portraits and reversible heads / Gorel Cavalli-Bjorkman -- Catalogue -- Between art and nature : Arcimboldo and the world of the Kuntskammer / Franz Kirchweger -- Catalogue -- Arcimboldo's composite heads, grotesques and the aesthetics of paradox / Philippe Morel -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo : silk cultivation and manufacture / Philippe Morel -- The princely stage : Arcimboldo's costumes and drawings for court festivities and tournaments / Andreas Beyer -- Catalogue -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo : learning, letters, and art / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Appendix -- Observations on the painting technique of Arcimboldo and his circle / Ina Slama and Monika Strolz -- Technical Analysis of the Vegetable Gardener / Mario A. Lazzari and Mario Marubbi -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Milan : documents and hypotheses : Summary of the documents relating to the milanese period -- Sources on Arcimboldo at the Habsburg Court / Manfred Straudinger.

Preface / Wilfried Seipel, Sylvia Ferino-Padgen : p.9.

Preface / Christian Poncelet : p.10.

Preface / Patrizia Nitti : p.11.

Índice : p. 13.

Bibliography : p.310-319.