Giuseppe Arcimboldo aus einer Serie der Vier Jahreszeiten Painting ID:: 70047 new23/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-876996.jpg
aus einer Serie der Vier Jahreszeiten Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 100 x 140 cm
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Der Herbst Painting ID:: 72496 new23/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-737659.jpg
Der Herbst Date 16th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 100 x 140 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Giuseppe Arcimboldo's art Painting ID:: 73301 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-755423.jpg
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's art Giuseppe Arcimboldo's art
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Flora Painting ID:: 74836 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-498566.jpg
Flora um 1591
Oil on panel
73 x 56 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Flora Painting ID:: 76289 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-954358.jpg
Flora Date Deutsch: um 1591
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 73 x 56 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Jurist Painting ID:: 78751 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-399857.jpg
The Jurist 1566(1566)
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Erzherzogin Anna Painting ID:: 78849 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-884547.jpg
Erzherzogin Anna Deutsch: Holz
Dimensions Deutsch: 42 x 34 cm Rahmenmaße: 68 x 60 x 5 cm
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Erzherzogin Anna Painting ID:: 79531 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-855678.jpg
Erzherzogin Anna Deutsch: um 1563
Medium Deutsch: Holz
Dimensions Deutsch: 42 x 34 cm Rahmenmaße: 68 x 60 x 5 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II Painting ID:: 81784 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-564473.jpg
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II Deutsch: 240 x 188 cm Rahmenmaße: 250 x 201 x 6 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Spring Painting ID:: 82098 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-366454.jpg
The Spring Date 1563(1563)
Medium Oil on oakwood
Dimensions Height: 66 cm (26 in). Width: 50 cm (19.7 in).
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Autumn Painting ID:: 82199 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-896695.jpg
Autumn 1573, oil on canvas,
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Water Painting ID:: 84081 new24/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-596697.jpg
Water Date 1566(1566)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 67 cm (26.4 in). Width: 51 cm (20.1 in).
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Water Painting ID:: 84558 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-438743.jpg
Water Date 1566(1566)
Medium Oil on wood
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Spring Painting ID:: 85701 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-584595.jpg
The Spring 1563(1563)
Medium Oil on oak wood
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Cook Painting ID:: 87910 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-396394.jpg
The Cook 1570(1570)
Medium Oil on wood
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Water Painting ID:: 88408 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-667789.jpg
Water 1566(1566)
Medium Oil on wood
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Four Seasons in one Head Painting ID:: 88898 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-733857.jpg
The Four Seasons in one Head 1590(1590)
Medium Oil on poplar
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Four Seasons in one Head Painting ID:: 90288 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-784648.jpg
The Four Seasons in one Head 1590(1590)
Medium oil on poplar
Dimensions Height: 60 cm (23.6 in). Width: 45 cm (17.7 in).
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Portrait of Magdalena of Austria Painting ID:: 92530 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-759583.jpg
Portrait of Magdalena of Austria Date c. 1563(1563)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions Height: 44 cm (17.3 in). Width: 34 cm (13.4 in).
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. of Austria and his wife Infanta Maria of Spain with their children Painting ID:: 92671 new25/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-778384.jpg
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. of Austria and his wife Infanta Maria of Spain with their children Date Deutsch: um 1563 nach einer Vorlage von 1553/54
Medium Deutsch: Leinwand
Dimensions Deutsch: 240 x 188 cm Rahmenmaße: 250 x 201 x 6 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Water Painting ID:: 97485 new26/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-868748.jpg
Water 1566(1566)
Medium oil on panel
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo Fire Painting ID:: 97974 new26/Giuseppe Arcimboldo-968544.jpg
b.c. 1527, Milan,
d.1593, Milan Italian Giuseppe Arcimboldo Galleries
Arcimboldo was born in Milan in 1527, the son of Biagio, a painter who did work for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo.Arcimboldo was commissioned to do stained glass window designs beginning in 1549, including the Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria vitrage at the Duomo. In 1556 he worked with Giuseppe Meda on frescoes for the Cathedral of Monza. In 1558, he drew the cartoon for a large tapestry of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, which still hangs in the Como Cathedral today.
In 1562 he became court portraitist to Ferdinand I at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and later, to Maximilian II and his son Rudolf II at the court in Prague. He was also the court decorator and costume designer. King Augustus of Saxony, who visited Vienna in 1570 and 1573, saw Arcimboldo's work and commissioned a copy of his "The Four Seasons" which incorporates his own monarchic symbols.
Arcimboldo's conventional work, on traditional religious subjects, has fallen into oblivion, but his portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, fruit and tree roots, were greatly admired by his contemporaries and remain a source of fascination today. Art critics debate whether these paintings were whimsical or the product of a deranged mind.. A majority of scholars hold to the view, however, that given the Renaissance fascination with riddles, puzzles, and the bizarre (see, for example, the grotesque heads of Leonardo da Vinci, a fellow Milanese), Arcimboldo, far from being mentally imbalanced, catered to the taste of his times.
Arcimboldo died in Milan, to which he retired after leaving the Habsburg service. It was during this last phase of his career that he produced the composite portrait of Rudolph II (see above), as well as his self-portrait as the Four Seasons. His Italian contemporaries honored him with poetry and manuscripts celebrating his illustrious career. His hidden-face still-lives are a possible influence on his younger Lombard contemporary Caravaggio, whose painting of fruit in the Brera museum in Milan ranks as one of the earliest independent still-lives.
When the Swedish army invaded Prague in 1648, during the Thirty Years' War, many of Arcimboldo's paintings were taken from Rudolf II's collection.
His works can be found in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Habsburg Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, the Louvre in Paris, as well as numerous museums in Sweden. In Italy, his work is in Cremona, Brescia, and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, the Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas, and the Candie Museum in Guernsey also own paintings by Archimboldo.