16th-century Italian painter of the late renaissance period
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Self-portrait, now in National Gallery Prague
Born
5 April 1526
Milan, Duchy of Milan, Holy Roman Empire
Died
11 July 1593(1593-07-11) (aged 67)
Milan, Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Spain
Known for
Painting
Notable work
The Librarian, 1566
Vertumnus, 1590–1591
Flora, c. 1591
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian:[dʒuˈzɛppeartʃimˈbɔldo];[1] 5 April 1526 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.[2]
These works form a distinct category from his other productions. He was a conventional court painter of portraits for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague; also producing religious subjects and, among other things, a series of coloured drawings of exotic animals in the imperial menagerie. He specialized in grotesque symbolical compositions of fruits, animals, landscapes, or various inanimate objects arranged into human forms.[3]
The still life portraits were clearly partly intended as curiosities to amuse the court, but critics have speculated as to how seriously they engaged with Renaissance Neo-Platonism or other intellectual currents of the day.
^Luciano Canepari. "Arcimboldo". DiPI Online (in Italian). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
^Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (2009). Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting. University of Chicago Press. pp. 1, 93, 96. ISBN 9780226426860.
^Oxford illustrated encyclopedia. Judge, Harry George., Toyne, Anthony. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press. 1985–1993. p. 21. ISBN 0-19-869129-7. OCLC 11814265.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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