Jessica Keating is Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Carleton College, Minnesota. She is the author of Animating Empire: Automata, The Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World (2018).

This richly illustrated life of Arcimboldo delightfully narrates the complexity of the artist’s journey between Milan, Vienna, and Prague through close study of his varied artistic production within the context of the cultural, social, and political circles he traversed. Like Arcimboldo’s playful paintings themselves, Jessica Keating’s study brings joy at the same time that it reveals the paradoxes of the early modern world. - Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago

Jessica Keating is Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Carleton College, Minnesota. She is the author of Animating Empire: Automata, The Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World (2018).

This richly illustrated life of Arcimboldo delightfully narrates the complexity of the artist’s journey between Milan, Vienna, and Prague through close study of his varied artistic production within the context of the cultural, social, and political circles he traversed. Like Arcimboldo’s playful paintings themselves, Jessica Keating’s study brings joy at the same time that it reveals the paradoxes of the early modern world. - Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago