Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Italian painter of the late Renaissance (1527–1593)
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter from the late Renaissance who lived from 1527 to 1593. While the provided context does not specify his notable achievements or artistic significance, he is an important figure from this period in art history.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1527-01-01
- Died
- 1593-07-11
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Printemps d'artistes
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5 total works indexed
Works in European collections
33 objects attributed to Giuseppe Arcimboldo, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi ( Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
These works form a category distinct 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.
