Mascarade

Somewhere between the Mask and the Face

1. Just the two of us (Google)

2. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera, etching, 1688 (Le Collezioni d’Arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna: Le Incisioni; Vol. I, ed. Franca Varignana). On Mitelli, see Misteraitch, "Giuseppe Maria Mitelli" and "More Mitelli," Giornale Nuovo, 07.02.05 and 28.02.05 respectively (image source: "More Mitelli," fig. 6). 

3. Wood mask from Switzerland. Musée de la Masque, Binche

4. Aloisio Giovanolli (1550-1618), Ornamental head, etching. Ornamentstichsammlung, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin

5. Mariano Akerman, Cristalino, Primer movimiento (Crystalline—First Movement), gouache, 1986. Private collection, Buenos Aires. For the poem inspired by this image, see Tête à tête.

6. Francis Bacon, Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976

7. Leonardo da Vinci, Three grotesque profiles (detail from a sheet with Seven Studies of Grotesque Faces).

8. What they have in mind, poster, late 1960s

9. Jacques Callot, burlesque musician, etching from his Varie figuri gobbi (various hunchbacked figures), 1616-22. On gobbi, see www.jacquescallot.com/gobbis.html

10. Still from A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) - L'orange musicale

11. Ibid.

12. Still from Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon; Georges Mélliès, 1902).

13. Max Ernst, "Elle ressemblant...", La maison de la peur, collage, 1938 

14. Leuthner

15. Man-Dog (Adobe)

16. Quentin Metsys, A Grotesque Old Woman (detail), oil, sixteenth century. National Gallery of Art, London

17. Max Ernst

18. Cornelis Floris. Engraving

19. Exchange (Google)

20. Mariano Akerman, Reality (Appearance and Evidence), pencil on paper, 1995

21. Luigi Serafini, Pulcinella from Pulcinellopedia piccola, c. 1984. Pencil. (Misteraitch, "How I found the Codex," Giornale Nuovo, 11.05.03, fig. 8). On this mask from Commedia dell'arte, see Museo di Pulcinella, Italy

22. Ibid. (Giornale Nuovo, logo) 

 23. Untitled (Flogup)

24. Johann Heinrich Keller, Knorpelgroteske (cartilaginous grotesque), etching, 1680

25. Friedrich Unteutsch, Knorpelwork, 1650. Engraving by Abraham Aubry

26. Leuthner

27. Christoph Jamnitzer, Grotesque from his Neuw Grotteßken Buch, etching, 1610 ("Faces of the Grotesque," Giornale Nuovo, 10.06.06, fig. 5). For a discussion, see Preñada extravagancia.

28. Houtin

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30. Grotesque shell face, Nimphaeum, Chateau de Wideville, Seine-et-Oise, 1634-35.

31. Cornelis Floris, Grotesque Head, 1555. Engraving by Frans Huys ("Faces of the Grotesque," Giornale Nuovo, 10.06.06, fig. 2). 

 32. Man-Tree from a Seatle parade, digital image (after photograph; background modified) -Comme l'arbre des champs

33. L'Ogre degli Orti (Hell-Mouth), Villa Orsini, Bomarzo, 1538-70. "Tout à la fois étonne, séduit et désoriente" (Claude Frontisi, Histoire visuelle de 'art, Paris: Larousse, 2002, p. 237).

34. Giuseppe Maria  Mitelli, Son testa, son paese, case e gente (I am Head, I am Country, Houses and People), etching, 1702 (Le Collezioni d’Arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna: Le Incisioni; Vol. I; "More Mitelli," fig. 10).

35. Joris Hoefnagel, Grotesque head from Mira calligraphiæ monumenta, c. 1591, fol. 143v. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles ("Faces of the Grotesque," fig. 4; Esto y aquello).

36. Man-Tree (Flickr)

37. Giulio Clovio, detail from a decorative border in the Farnese Hours, c. 1545  ("Faces of the Grotesque," fig. 1; see also "Clovio, and the Farnese Hours," Giornale Nuovo, 02.06.06). 

38. CD covering - Misplaced Ideals, by Paul Young

39. Xul Solar, Pareja (Couple), watercolor, 1923. Malba, Buenos Aires - ArgentinArte and Visual Tour

40. Jean Fautrier, Grande tete tragique (Large Tragic Head), bronze. Tate Gallery, London

41. Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, oil, 1972. Gilbert de Botton Collection, Switzerland. On Bacon, see Baconian and  Art Documents.

42. The Kiss, from a French magazine, 2007

43. Francis Bacon, Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing, oil, 1969. Private collection. For ideas closely retated to this image, see intense et inquiétante

44. Disguise Skill—Try Harder (Google)

45. Mariano Akerman, Mascarade, photograph, Paris (Opera, Grand Foyer), 2007 Photograph

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