
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 2
1527-1593
Italian Mannerist Painter
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 in Milan, Italy - 1593) was a distinctive and eccentric painter who is best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruit or vegetables or flowers, or fish, or inanimate objects such as 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.
In 1562 he became the court portraitist to Maximilian II at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and later, to his son Rudolf II, both of whom seem to have much liked Arcimboldo's extraordinary portraits.
He was also the court decorator, costume designer, and general art expert. His style of early pre-surrealist portraiture was much copied by his contemporaries, making it difficult at times to differentiate his work from that of imitators.
His paintings are in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum and in the Habsburg Schloss Amras in Innsbruck. In Italy, his work is in Cremona, Brescia, and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, also contains pieces of his work.
In 1562 he became the court portraitist to Maximilian II at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and later, to his son Rudolf II, both of whom seem to have much liked Arcimboldo's extraordinary portraits.
He was also the court decorator, costume designer, and general art expert. His style of early pre-surrealist portraiture was much copied by his contemporaries, making it difficult at times to differentiate his work from that of imitators.
His paintings are in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum and in the Habsburg Schloss Amras in Innsbruck. In Italy, his work is in Cremona, Brescia, and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, also contains pieces of his work.
35 Arcimboldo Paintings

The Librarian c.1566
Oil Painting
$1989
$1989
Canvas Print
$54.19
$54.19
SKU: GAR-133
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 97 x 71 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 97 x 71 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden

Autumn 1573
Oil Painting
$2488
$2488
Canvas Print
$64.06
$64.06
SKU: GAR-134
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Summer 1573
Oil Painting
$2577
$2577
Canvas Print
$63.50
$63.50
SKU: GAR-135
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Rudolf II (Vertumnus) c.1590
Oil Painting
$2540
$2540
Canvas Print
$59.33
$59.33
SKU: GAR-3189
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 70.5 x 57.5 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 70.5 x 57.5 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden

Terra 1566
Oil Painting
$2681
$2681
Canvas Print
$51.97
$51.97
SKU: GAR-4257
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 70 x 49 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 70 x 49 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria

Spring 1573
Oil Painting
$3763
$3763
Canvas Print
$62.67
$62.67
SKU: GAR-6075
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Winter 1573
Oil Painting
$2606
$2606
Canvas Print
$50.43
$50.43
SKU: GAR-6076
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Winter 1563
Oil Painting
$2536
$2536
Canvas Print
$57.94
$57.94
SKU: GAR-6077
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 66.6 x 50.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 66.6 x 50.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Water 1566
Oil Painting
$4265
$4265
Canvas Print
$57.80
$57.80
SKU: GAR-6078
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 66.6 x 50.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 66.6 x 50.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Summer 1563
Oil Painting
$2488
$2488
Canvas Print
$58.09
$58.09
SKU: GAR-6079
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 67 x 50.8 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 67 x 50.8 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Fire 1566
Oil Painting
$2141
$2141
Canvas Print
$57.94
$57.94
SKU: GAR-6080
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 66.5 x 51 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 66.5 x 51 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Jurist 1566
Oil Painting
$1989
$1989
Canvas Print
$82.46
$82.46
SKU: GAR-6081
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 64 x 51 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 64 x 51 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden

Cook 1570
Oil Painting
$1841
$1841
Canvas Print
$54.07
$54.07
SKU: GAR-6082
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 52.2 x 41 cm
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 52.2 x 41 cm
Private Collection

Vegetable Gardener c.1590
Oil Painting
$1714
$1714
Canvas Print
$50.43
$50.43
SKU: GAR-6083
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 35 x 24 cm
Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italy
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 35 x 24 cm
Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italy

Herod undated
Oil Painting
$2420
$2420
Canvas Print
$50.43
$50.43
SKU: GAR-6084
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 45.6 x 34 cm
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 45.6 x 34 cm
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria

Capon 1597
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6085
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 22.1 x 14.9 cm
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 22.1 x 14.9 cm
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

The Allegory of Earth undated
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6086
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection

An Allegory of Water undated
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6087
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection

An Allegory of Fire undated
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6088
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection

An Allegory of Air undated
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6089
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 18.7 x 15.5 cm
Private Collection

Spring and Summer undated
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6090
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 17.3 x 23.5 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 17.3 x 23.5 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Autumn and Winter undated
Paper Print
$48.02
$48.02
SKU: GAR-6091
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 17.3 x 23.5 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: 17.3 x 23.5 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Whimsical Portrait undated
Oil Painting
$2290
$2290
Canvas Print
$50.43
$50.43
SKU: GAR-6092
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Admiral undated
Oil Painting
$2726
$2726
Canvas Print
$50.43
$50.43
SKU: GAR-6093
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection