Torre Scheuch, Francesca Del: Arcimboldo, Bassano, Bruegel. Nature's Time. Exhibition: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2025. 336 pages, 200 colour and 50 black & white illustrations. Hardback. 27.4 x 26.3cms. Catalogue for the exhibition in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 7 essays discuss Arcimboldo's 'Four Seasons', the development of European landscape painting and Pieter Bruegel's cycle of the 'Seasons', the Bassano season paintings, depictions of nature in Early Modern Venice, and Veneto economy. The catalogue is divided into 12 parts: new perspectives on nature, the progress of modern science in the early sixteenth century, courtly banquets, myth and poetry, mainland Venice and agronomy in the sixteenth century, Northern European influence, Leandro Bassano's patrons in Padua, and the interest in botanical studies in Prague and Florence.
Catalogue for the exhibition in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 7 essays discuss Arcimboldo's 'Four Seasons', the development of European landscape painting and Pieter Bruegel's cycle of the 'Seasons', the Bassano season paintings, depictions of nature in Early Modern Venice, and Veneto economy. The catalogue is divided into 12 parts: new perspectives on nature, the progress of modern science in the early sixteenth century, courtly banquets, myth and poetry, mainland Venice and agronomy in the sixteenth century, Northern European influence, Leandro Bassano's patrons in Padua, and the interest in botanical studies in Prague and Florence