Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s book was originally published in Livorno, in 1624. One would assume the book was not a success, as it exerted no influence, and attracted very little notice until its rediscovery in Paris ca. 1950. Its rediscoverer, Alain Brieux, published a limited facsimile edition of the book in 1963, with a preface by Tristan Tzara.

The fifty plates of the Bizzarie di varie figure (Oddities of various figures) are the liveliest and most original etchings of a highly creative, if little known, Florentine artist, Giovanni Battista Braccelli. Using small copper plates, Braccelli etched three introductory texts and forty-seven pictorial images. Many of the images in the Bizzarie depict pairs of dynamic figures constructed from fabricated elements, wooden boxes or frames, square and round metal links, metal plates, cylindrical containers, braided hair, wooden screws, and twisted wax tapers; their poses suggest tumblers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, duelists, sportsmen, and actors. Bodies constructed of cubic forms are impossibly twisted and shaped to suggest deceptive stunts or magic tricks; bodies gliding through themselves or each other. There are figures whose bodies are composed of lozenges similar to the black-and-white diamonds that adorn the costume of Harlequin, prancing extravagantly and gesticulating as if they were appearing on stage.

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