The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0360 Wednesday, 14 February 2001
[1] From: Ros King <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 13 Feb 2001 19:56:00 +0000
Subj: Re: SHK 12.0341 Re: Ducks and Rabbits
[2] From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 13 Feb 2001 10:26:52 -0800
Subj: Re: SHK 12.0341 Re: Ducks and Rabbits
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From: Ros King <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 13 Feb 2001 19:56:00 +0000
Subject: 12.0341 Re: Ducks and Rabbits
Comment: Re: SHK 12.0341 Re: Ducks and Rabbits
These joke pictures are also commonly used, for example, in
sixteenth/seventeenth century anti-catholic propagandist prints: here's
a fox - whoops, no, the other way up it's a cardinal!
Ros
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From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 13 Feb 2001 10:26:52 -0800
Subject: 12.0341 Re: Ducks and Rabbits
Comment: Re: SHK 12.0341 Re: Ducks and Rabbits
David Evett suggests:
>David Nicol's friend might enjoy the work of the later C16 Milanese
>painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who constructed what seem at a little
>distance to be human faces and figures that on closer inspection are
>platters of vegetables.
You might also enjoy Aretino's Italian medal with "his own, ennobled
head on one side and, on the reverse, that of a satyr entirely composed
of penises and testicles" (John Hale, _Civilization of Europe in the
Renaissance_, 435). It's not quite what you had in mind, but it this
complicates the irony of Arcimboldo's portraiture: not only is the
satyr really a bunch of sex organs, but the flip side of the medal shows
a completely 'straight' image of a man.
Cheers,
Se
