Grotesque and Caricature

Rebecca Norris, PhD (2014, University of Cambridge), is Adjunct Instructor in Art History at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She is a scholar of North Italian Renaissance.Lucia Tantardini, PhD (2014, University of Cambridge), is an Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is a scholar of Renaissance Milan and is currently working on two books: Aurelio Luini (ca. 1530–93). The Complete Paintings and Drawings (Ugo Bozzi) and Drawing in Renaissance and Early Modern Milan (Routledge).

• Preface and AcknowledgementsLucia Tantardini, Rebecca Norris and Lucia TantardiniList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsNotes on the TextMonstrous Inventions: Caricature and the Grotesque in Early Modern ArtSandra Cheng1 Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings of Busts of Old Men and Women with Monstruous Faces: Satire as Moral CriticismMichael W. Kwakkelstein2 Lomazzo’s Grotesque Heads RevisitedLucia Tantardini3 Sebastiano del Piombo’s Caricatural Gesture and the Path to IdealismMatthias Wivel4 Burlesque Irreverences: Domenico Campagnola and Ruzante in the Corte CornaroChristophe Brouard5 Carracci’s Ritrattini Carichi and the ‘Origins’ of CaricatureMary Vaccaro6 Guercino’s Grotesque Heads and CaricaturesNicholas Turner7 Deformation as Revelation: A Monstrous Portrait by Bartolomeo PasserottiIlaria Bernocchi8 Heavenly Bodies III: Bernini’s Caricatures and CopiesTod Marder9 Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini’s Caricatures (1931)Translator Susan Klaiber10 Jusepe de Ribera and the Grotesque: Between Science and ComedyCarlo AvilioBibliography