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"And silence is made." http://lajoiedevivre-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/citations.html ; http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/art-lectures.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/artistic-imagination.html ; http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/05/crudelitas.html ; http://documenta-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/02/architecture.html

Lamasu. Human-headed winged bull facing. Bas-relief from King Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716 BCE. | Taureau androcéphale ailé tourné de face. Bas-relief du palais bâti par Sargon II à Dur Sharrukin, en Assyrie (actuelle Khorsabad, Iraq), v. 713–716 av. J.-C. Musée du Louvre, Paris http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/06/sacred-hybrid.html

Assyrian-Babylonian demon http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html → http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/ap.html

Silenus, after a classical theater mask http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html

Mariano Akerman, Plate relating hybrid motifs to Horace's lines in Ars Poetica, 2008 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

Roman painting. View of the cryptoporticus with illusionistic candelabra and figures from the Domus Aurea (Golden House of Nero), Rome (German Archaeological Institute, Rome). http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/07/domus-aurea.html

Roman mosaic from Carthage, Tunisia. Bardo Museum, Tunis http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/viva-la-mezcla.html

Roman mosaic from Carthage, Tunisia. Bardo Museum, Tunis Sacred Hybrid, http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/06/sacred-hybrid.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

The Green Man in a medieval wood misericord http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html

Grotesque medieval gargoyle on a French building http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html → http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/ap.html

A monstrous race: blemmyae. Medieval manuscript illumination http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html

French Medieval Gargoyle http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

Medieval sculpture: a toad-gargoyle http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html

Grotteschi or grotesques in candelabrum arrangement. Italian mural painting. Fresco http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/artistic-imagination.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/12/grotesques-larousse.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/grotteschi.html

Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564), Grotesques (Grotteschi/Grottesche), 1516-17. Fresco detail. Loggeta of Cardinal Bibbiena, Vatican Palace http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/grotteschi.html

Grotteschi. Assorted Italian Rennaisance Grotesques: Grottesca. Research online via Google and Digital Montage of Images by Mariano Akerman, 21.3.2011 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/grotteschi.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/la-grottesca.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/07/domus-aurea.html ; http://hola-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/08/arte.html ; http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/bridging-cultures.html ; http://hola-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/puente-entre-culturas.html

Marco Dente (after Raphael), Grotesque, ornamental engraving, early 16th century http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/grotteschi.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

Grotteschi, fresco, late-16th century. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/12/grotesques-larousse.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/grotteschi.html

Marco da Faenza, Decorazione grottesca (detail), late-16th century, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (Ugo Muccini and Alessandro Cecchi: Le Stanze del Principe in Palazzo Vecchio). http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/la-grottesca.html

Giulio Parigi, A Grotesque Head, fresco ceiling detail, 1599-1600. Stanzino delle Matematiche, Uffizi, Florence. http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html

A grotesque motif from a mannerist engraving http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html ; http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/paradox.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/12/grotesques-larousse.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

François Desprez, Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, Paris: Richard Breton, 1565 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Water, 1566. Oil. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html → http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/ap.html

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumnus, oil (detail), 1590. Skokloster Castle, Sweden http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-you-like-it.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

Arcimboldo-inspired composite head known as "Reversible Head with Basket of Fruit." http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-you-like-it.html

Arcimboldo-inspired Winter. Private collection, New York. Courtesy of Pandora Old Masters, New York http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html

acques Callot, Razullo & Curucucu, from Balli di Sfessania, etching, 1621-22. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/jacques-callot.html

Joos van Craesbeeck, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1650 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/viva-la-mezcla.html

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Grotesques, 1786. Dessins | Sketches | Bocetos. BNF, Paris. Composition: Mariano Akerman Pour des buts éducatifs seulement | For educational use only | Fines exclusivamente educativos http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/07/lequeu.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

Francisco de Goya, "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos," Capricho nº 43, aguafuerte, 1799. Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/goya.html ; http://hola-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/08/discurso.html

Composition with Hybrid Beings, painted porcelain panel (after a design by Lucas van Leyden), England, 1865, Victoria & Albert Museum, London http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2009/03/painters-and-poets.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), The Works of Rabelais, 1894, prologue. http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/ligeras-desproporciones.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/06/deja-vu.html

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), "Pantagruel," Garganuúa et Pantagruel (François Rabelais, 1532-53), Œuvres de Rabelais, Paris: Garnier Frères, 1873, 2, 4, 35. http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/ligeras-desproporciones.html

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), "Gargantua," Gargantua et Pantagruel (François Rabelais, 1532-53), Œuvres de Rabelais, Paris: Garnier Frères, 1873, I, 22. http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/ligeras-desproporciones.html

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), The Works of Rabelais, 1894, 1, 1, 43. http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/ligeras-desproporciones.html

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), "Gargantua," Gargantua et Pantagruel (François Rabelais, 1532-53), Œuvres de Rabelais, Paris: Garnier Frères, 1873, I, 1, 38. http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/ligeras-desproporciones.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html

Grandville, Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle | Gabinete de Ciencias Naturales), litograph, 1833 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/alexander-ovchinnikov.html

Philippe Wolfers, Dragonfly, jewelry, c.1900 http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/discovering-belgian-art.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2012/03/ars-poetica.html

"Grotesque Figures Carved on Modern Skyscrapers," Popular Science Monthly, October 1933, p. 20 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/popular-science.html

"Grotesque Figures Carved on Modern Skyscrapers," Popular Science Monthly, October 1933, p. 21 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/03/popular-science.html

Neue Sachlichkeit. Georg Scholz, Industriebauern | Industrial Farm Family, oil and collage on wood, 1920. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html ; http://akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/11/ap.html ; http://documenta-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-objectivity.html

Hans Bellmer, Doll, 1936 (cast in 1965). Painted aluminum on bronze base, 66 x 25.4 x 27.9 cm. Zwirner & Wirth, New York http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/12/uncanny.html ; http://documenta-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/08/1.html

Francis Bacon, detail from "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion," 1944. Triptych. Oil on board. Tate Gallery, London http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2009/03/ortega-y-gasset-sobre-la-metafora.html ; http://mariano-akerman.blogspot.com/2010/12/writings-online-index.html

Two slightly different women: one in academic style (Bouguereau, Baigneuse, 1890); the other conceived as "art brut" (Dubuffet, La Coiffeuse, 1950). http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/06/jean-dubuffet.html ; http://documenta-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/06/postwar-figural-art.html

Louise Bourgeois, Janus fleuri, 1968. Bronze and golden patina, h: 25.7 x w: 31.8 x d: 21.3 cm. Collection of the artist http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/12/uncanny.html ; http://documenta-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/08/1.html

Roberto Fontanarrosa, "If there's something we should discard... that's sterility," c. 1982 http://www.flogup.com/akermariano/826009

A contemporary grotesque, c. 2004 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-grotesque.html

H.R. Giger, Necronomicon IV, 1977 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-you-like-it.html ; http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2011/02/grotesque.html

H.R. Giger, Alien, 1977-78 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-you-like-it.html

H.R. Giger, Alien the 8th Passenger, 1979 http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-you-like-it.html

Till Nowak, Salad, A Tribute to H.R. Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 3D animation, 2006. Siggraph Art Gallery http://im-akermariano.blogspot.com/2010/10/as-you-like-it.html