Giovanni Battista Bracelli ’s engraving better the human eubstance down into uncanny shapes and distort our form in ways that remain disturbing to this daytime . He tempt the cubist prowess of Picasso and others , plus Dalí ’s surrealism — but his work is still unique , nearly 400 years after it was published .
Bracelli lived from c. 1600 - 1650 and publish his geographic nontextual matter in a book title “ Bizarie di varie bod ” ( Peculiarity of Various Figures ) in 1624 .
The pictures are fromFeedtim , Real Tennis , Italian WaysandBibliothéque nationale de France .
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