
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 2
1527-1593Italian 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.
35 Paintings of Arcimboldo
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Skoklosters Slott Balsta Sweden
The Librarian
$1921
$52.33
Louvre Museum Paris France
Autumn
$2403
$61.86
Louvre Museum Paris France
Summer
$2488
$61.32
Skoklosters Slott Balsta Sweden
Rudolf II (Vertumnus)
$2452
$57.29
Liechtenstein Museum Vienna Austria
Terra
$2589
$50.19
Louvre Museum Paris France
Spring
$3634
$60.51
Louvre Museum Paris France
Winter
$2517
$48.70
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Austria
Winter
$2449
$55.95
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Austria
Water
$4119
$55.81
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Austria
Summer
$2403
$56.09
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Austria
Fire
$2068
$55.95
Skoklosters Slott Balsta Sweden
Jurist
$1921
$79.63
Private Collection
Cook
$1777
$52.21
Museo Civico Ala Ponzone Cremona Italy
Vegetable Gardener
$1655
$48.70
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck Austria
Herod
$2337
$48.70
The Israel Museum Jerusalem Israel
Capon
$46.37
Private Collection
The Allegory of Earth
$46.37
Private Collection
An Allegory of Water
$46.37
Private Collection
An Allegory of Fire
$46.37
Private Collection
An Allegory of Air
$46.37
National Museum Stockholm Sweden
Spring and Summer
$46.37
National Museum Stockholm Sweden
Autumn and Winter
$46.37
Private Collection
Whimsical Portrait
$2211
$48.70
Private Collection
The Admiral
$2632
$48.70
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