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October 21, 2013 by Max Distro LLC

Giuseppe Arcimboldo at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Summer by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Summer by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Kunsthistorisches Museum has a truly amazing collection of paintings and I thought I would highlight some of the artists in separate posts. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527-1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books – that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. Arcimboldo had been a court painter in Vienna for Maximilian II and in Prague for Rudolf II since 1562. In 1563 he began painting his famous collection of the four seasons and the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire and Air), which were presented to Maximilian II on New Year’s Day 1569. While these funky portraits might have gotten most portrait painters executed or at least banished, the Hapsburgs loved them. Arcimboldo was as much a court jester as a painter, the paintings are full of puns, for instance, the ear of Summer is an ear of corn, his nose is a pickle and the date of the painting and signature of Arcimboldo are woven into the straw garment of Summer.

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Filed Under: Painting, Vienna Tagged With: Arcimboldi, Bernard Pras, Fire, Giueppe Arcimboldo, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Maximilian II, Rudolf II, Summer, Vienna, Water, Winter

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