1.08.2011

waterBOLDO

ARCIMBOLDO at The Smithsonian

Oozing with sea creatures, Water, 1566, uses more than 60 animals to paradoxical effect: the artist, says scholar Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, was a "virtuoso entertainer and an artificer of fantasy" as well as "a scrupulous imitator of nature."

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