Giuseppe Arcimboldo
16th-century Italian painter of the late renaissance period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo];[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]
Giuseppe Arcimboldo | |
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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 |
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.