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  • Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting 9780226426884

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    Thomas DaCosta Kaufma nn

    Arcimboldo

    Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting

    The University of Chicago Press  Chicago & London

    Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is the Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His many books include Toward a Geography of Art, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

    The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2009 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2009 Printed in the United States of America

    The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges a subvention from the Publications Fund of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kaufmann, Thomas DeCosta. Arcimboldo : visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-226-42686-0 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-226-42686-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1.

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