Seeing double

Patrick Hughes

  • The Arcimboldo Effect by Pontus Hulten
    Thames and Hudson, 402 pp, £32.00, May 1987, ISBN 0 500 27471 1

Four hundred years after his return to Milan from Prague in 1587, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) is having his first one-man show at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice: 15 February until 31 May. This is the book of the exhibition.

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[*] Collected in The Responsibility of Forms (the French tide, L’Obvie et L’Obtus, is more typical and more illuminating), discussed by Michael Wood (LRB, 9 October 1986).