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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring
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1563
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Summer
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1573
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Autumn
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1573
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The Librarian
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1566
Skoklosters Slott, Sweden
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring (mk08)
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1563
Oil on wood
66.7x50.4cm
Madrid,Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Summer (nn03)
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1573 Oil on canvas h76 x w63.5cm h30 x w25in Musee du Louvre,Paris
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Fire (mk45)
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1566
Oil on panel
66.5x51cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring
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mk68
Oil on canva
30"x25"
Madrid,San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts
1573
Italy
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Summer
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mk68
Oil on canvas
30"x25"
Paris.Louvre
1573
Italy
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Winter
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mk68
Oil on canvas
30"x25"
Paris,Louvrre
1573
Italy
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Autumn
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mk68
Oil on canvas
30"x25"
Paris
1573
Italy
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Vegetables in a Bowl or The Vegetable Gardener
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mk68
Oil on wood
13 3/4x9 1/2"
Cremona,Civic Museum
c.1590
Italy
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring
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mk68
1573
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring
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mk86
1563
Oil on wood
66.7x50.4cm
Madrid
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Water
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mk150
1566
Limewood
66.5x50.5cm
Painted for Emperor
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Spring
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mk156
1573
Oil on canvas
76x64cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Summer
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mk156
1573
Oil on canvas
196x216cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Museum art historic the water
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mk186
1566 Vienna
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Museum art historic the summer
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mk186
1563 Vienna
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The cook or the roast disk
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mk186
around 1570 private possessions
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The jurist
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mk186
1566 Stockholm national museum
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Emperor Rudolf II as a Vertumnus
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mk186
1590/91 Stockholm, Skoklosters Slott
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The summer
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mk186
1573 Paris muse you Louvre
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The autumn
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MK186 1573 Paris muse you Louvre
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Esquire Summer
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mk198
1563
Kunsthistorisches Museum,Wien
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
the jurist
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mk247
1566,oil on canvas,25x20 in,64x51 cm,nationalmuseum,stockholm,sweden
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
summer
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1573 ,oil on canvas,30x25 in,76x63.5 cm,louvre,paris,france
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Luft
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Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 74,4 (75) x 56 (56,6) cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Winter
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Date 16th century (?)
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 100 x 140 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Der Winter
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Date c. 1573
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 76 x 64 cm
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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.
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