Arts and Wonders

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Arts and Wonders is an unusual book - but Gregory Norminton is most definitely not your average author, so that did not come as a surprise. Unusual because its protagonist is a strange one - Tommaso Grillo, an Italian dwarf, who makes a living being an art forger. The story is panoramic, it's a BIG read - all of pages with Tommaso's life being lived in a number of different countries, starting in Renaissance Florence, and after travails in Prague and Germany, ending in Italy once more.

Tomm Arts and Wonders is an unusual book - but Gregory Norminton is most definitely not your average author, so that did not come as a surprise. Dave Correia "Rosie" pencil on paper 7 x 9" framed to 8.

Dave Correia "The Hutch" pencil on paper 5. Adrian Cherry "Lust" graphite on bristol paper 2. Cassie Meder "The Burdened" Brian Mashburn "Manzanar" oil on panel 5 x 5" framed to 5. Brian Mashburn "Bison Study" oil on panel 3. Brian Mashburn "Bighorn Study" oil on panel 2.

It's a path that rises steeply if unevenly, bearing him up to a giddy, gaudy elevation as court painter to the Duke of Felsengrunde, only later to plunge him into the depths, to starve and shiver with a strolling band of mummers, playing a grotesque elderly Cupid. The path, we know from the first page of the prologue, will loop around at last to Fiesole, where Tommaso now sits in pastoral retirement, composing this memoir.

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Arts and Wonders is not the first such account that Tommaso Grilli has made. You might say he has spent his whole life making and remaking accounts of himself, diligently revising his achievements and prospects for maximum effect and maximum gain. This one is his last testament, his first wholly truthful account, to be left behind when he steps through the second of those constant gates.

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He describes his birth, which killed his mother and ruined his father; the discovery of his talent; his first apprenticeship, to Arcimboldo, painter "of beasts and fishes and firebrands that combine to resemble a man". Arcimboldo dies; a second master bullies and abuses him. To Prague, then, where he waits to be noticed by the emperor. The wait proving tedious and unremunerative, he turns to forgery, producing treasures on demand for gullible collectors.