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The relationship between humor and figurative art has been explored frequently ever since Giuliano Briganti's parodic interpretation of Pellegrino Tibaldi's frescoes in the Poggi Palace of Bologna. In this essay, José Emilio Burucúa shares the mechanisms and formulas invented by European artists from the first modernity in order to elicit laughter from those who gazed upon their work. Las relaciones entre lo cómico y el arte figurativa han sido examinadas con frecuencia desde que, en 1945, Giuliano Briganti interpretara en clave paródica los frescos de Pellegrino Tibaldi en el Palacio Poggi de Bolonia. En este ensayo José Emilio Burucúa nos descubre cuáles fueron los mecanismos y las fórmulas inventadas por los artistas europeos de la primera modernidad para provocar con sus imágenes la risa de los contempladores.

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José Emilio Burucúa is the codirector of the Center for Production and Investigation in Artistic and Bibliographic Conservation and Restoration and an associate professor of history at the National University of General San Martín in Argentina. He is the author of Corderos y elefantes; Historia, arte, cultura: De Aby Warburg a Carlo Ginzburg; and Historia y ambivalencia.

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