| ARCIMBOLDO,
Giuseppe/ ARTISTS 1650-1899/ ART MAIN |
| (b.
cca. 1530, Milano, d. 1593, Milano) |
| Italian
painter, whose witty allegorical compositions foreshadowed
20th-century surrealist art. He began as a designer of stained
glass and tapestry in his native Milan; in 1562 he moved to Prague
and then to Vienna, where he became painter to the Habsburg court.
Arcimboldo invented a portrait type consisting of painted animals,
flowers, fruit, and objects composed to form a human likeness.
Some are satiric portraits of court personages, and others are
allegorical personifications. |
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Summer
1573
Oil on panel, 76 x 63,5 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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"Arcimboldo,
Giuseppe," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994
Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's
Corporation. |
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