Giovanni Battista Bracelli, Bookplates from ‘’Bizzarie di Varie Figure’’, 1624

Jun 08, 2015 20:17

Full of depictions of a variety of human shapes aggregated from a variety of objects or landscapes, appears prescient of modern cubist experiments. In this book, Bracelli engraved baroque experiments recalling Arcimboldo, engaging in a rarified set of conceits. Some of the figures are composed of boxes or raquets or curlicues










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