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Article: Caricature and Cartoon
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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CARICATURE AND CARTOON
CARICATURE AND CARTOON.
Exaggerated imitation in the form of grotesques, mimicry, and satire has a long history, but graphic caricature in the modern sense as the distortion of specific persons for amusement and ridicule appears only in the late sixteenth century. It emerges as the ideas of civility and sociability, codified in the work of Baldassare Castiglione (1478
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1529), Giovanni della Casa (1503
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1556), and Stefano Guazzo (1530
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1593), spread to include the relations among artists. As a visual form of wit, a then highly prized social skill, caricature became at once an expression of and a means of fostering mutually agreeable ...