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Contents 1 Grotesque (especially in literature) 2 Vintage grotesque 2.1 Natural history as category of the grotesque 2.2 Hartmann Schedel 2.3 Albrecht Dürer 2.4 Gregor Reisch 2.5 Giuseppe Arcimboldo 2.6 Ambroise Paré 2.7 Edward Topsell 2.8 Biddenden Maids 2.9 Johann Schenk 2.10 Ulisse Aldrovandi 2.11 John Bulwer 2.12 Fortunius Licetus 2.13 Anne-Claude-Philippe 2.14 James Parsons 2.15 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 2.16 Laurent Natter 2.17 Anonymous 2.18 Daniel Lambert 2.19 William Dent 2.20 Johann Kaspar Lavater 2.21 Baynes 2.22 Nicolas-Francois Regnault 2.23 Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert 2.24 George Cruickshank 2.25 T.Mclean 2.26 20th century

Grotesque (especially in literature)

This list is from the index of The Grotesque (1972) by Philip John Thomson

Arthur Adamov - Aristophanes - Walter Bagehot - Mikhail Bakhtin - John Barth - Samuel Beckett - Bellerive (Joseph Tishler (1871-1957)) - Gottfried Benn - Henri Bergson - William Blake - Hieronymus Bosch - Bertolt Brecht - Robert Browning - Pieter Brueghel - Jacques Callot - Albert Camus - Elias Canetti - Lewis Carroll - G. K. Chesterton - Arthur Clayborough ( The grotesque in English literature (1965)) - John Cleveland - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Thomas Cramer (Das Groteske bei E.T.A. Hoffmann. München 1966.) - Ludwig Curtius [1] - Salvador Dalí - Dante - Honoré Daumier - Charles Dickens - Denis Diderot - J. P. Donleavy - Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Max Ernst - William Faulkner - Federico Fellini - Sigmund Freud - Jean Genet - Francisco Goya - Grandville - Günter Grass - Robert Graves - George Grosz - Joseph Heller - Arnold P Hinchliffe (Critical Idiom writer)- E. T. A. Hoffmann - Victor Hugo - Eugène Ionesco - Alfred Jarry - Jean Paul - Lee Byron Jennings (The Ludicrous Demon: Aspects of the Grotesque in German Post-Romantic Prose.) - Franz Kafka - Wolfgang Kayser (The Grotesque in Art and Literature (1957)) - Friederike Kempner [2]- G. Wilson Knight - Comte de Lautréamont - D. H. Lawrence - Edward Lear - C. S. Lewis - Gerhard Mensching (Lemmi und die Schmöker) - Christian Morgenstern - Justus Moser - Vladimir Nabokov - Joe Orton - Harold Pinter - Edgar Allan Poe - François Rabelais - Raphael - Rainer Maria Rilke - John Ruskin - Friedrich Schlegel - Heinrich Schneegans [3] - William Shakespeare - Tobias Smollett - Michael Steig (Dickens and Phiz (1978) - Michael Steig)- Laurence Sterne - John Addington Symonds - Jonathan Swift - Dylan Thomas - Friedrich Theodor Vischer - Vitruvius - Evelyn Waugh - Thomas Wright

Vintage grotesque

Christoph Jamnitzer (German, 1563-1618), grandson of Wenzel Jamnitzer

Natural history as category of the grotesque

• Dominicus Custos (1550/1560 – 1612) was a copper engraver in Antwerpen and Augsburg. He was a student of Hans von Aachen.

See also Ambroise Paré, Conrad Gessner, Bartolomeo Ambrosinus, Olaus Magnus, Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo.

• Scythian lamb
• Mandrake from Herbarius (1485).

Hartmann Schedel

• One-eyed monster from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Blemmyae, or headless monster from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Long-eared Phanesians from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Big-lipped monster from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Sciapodes from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).
• Goat-people (satyrs) from Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (1493).

Albrecht Dürer

• Monstrous pig of Landseer by Albrecht Dürer (1496).

Gregor Reisch

• Human Monsters from Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophia (1517).

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

• Cooking from Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s The Genius of Cooking (1569).

Ambroise Paré

• Triton and Siren from the Latin edition of Ambroise Paré’s Des Monstres et Prodiges (1582).

Edward Topsell

• Edward Topsell’s The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1607, 1608, 1658).

Biddenden Maids

• Biddenden Maids “Pygopagous twins”.

Johann Schenk

• Parastic ectopy; Siamese twins from Johann Schenk’s Monstrorum historia memorabilis (1609).

Ulisse Aldrovandi

• Cynocephali from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (1642).
• Goose-headed Man from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (1642).

John Bulwer

• Hairy Man from John Bulwer’s Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transformed: or the Artificial Changling (1653).

John Bulwer (bap. 1606, d. 1656), was a British medical practitioner and writer on deafness and on gesture.

Fortunius Licetus

• More monsters (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).
• Medusa Head Found in an Egg (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).
• Elephant-headed man from Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstris (1665).
• Amorphous Monster (Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665).
• Pope-ass and other monsters from Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstrorum causis natura (1665).

Anne-Claude-Philippe

• Bear-headed Roman Senator (Anne-Claude-Philippe, Conte de Caylus, Recueil d’antiquites, 1665)

James Parsons

• Sneering Woman (James Parsons, Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion, 1745).

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

• Black Albino Child (Georges Buffon, L’histoire de l’homme, 1749)

Laurent Natter

• Chimera (Laurent Natter, Traite de la Methode Antique, 1754).

Anonymous

• Miniature Count Josef Boruwlaski with his wife Islina and their baby.(18th century).

Daniel Lambert

• Large Man Daniel Lambert. (18th century).

William Dent

• The Cutter Cut Up (William Dent, 1790).

Johann Kaspar Lavater

• Calculating Facial Disproportion (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
• Birthmarks (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).
• Rage (J.C. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, 1792).

Baynes

• The Siamese Brothers (T. M. Baynes, 19th century).

Nicolas-Francois Regnault

• Double Child (Nicolas-Francois Regnault, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).
• Monstrous child with multiple sensory organs (Nicolas-Francois Genault, Descriptions des principales monstruosites, 1808).

Nicolas-Francois Regnault (French, 1746-1810)

Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert

• Tumor (Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, Clinique de l’Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)
• Lepra Nigrans (Jean Louis Alibert, Clinique de l’Hopital Saint-Louis, 1833)

George Cruickshank

• The Cholick (George Cruickshank, 1835).

T.Mclean

• The Body Politic or the March of the Intellect (T.Mclean, 1836).

20th century

• Electric Kingdom ‘Postmodern Arcimboldo’. Club Flyer, 13 March 1999.