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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1527–1593 · Duchy of Milan
- Born
- 1527 · Milan
- Died
- 1593 · Milan
22 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an Italian Mannerist painter, is known for creating imaginative portraits. These portraits, composed of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books, formed human heads.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portraits in the shapes of human heads, though composed entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books. These works form a category distinct from his other artwork. He was a conventional court painter of portraits for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague, as well as religious subjects and a series of coloured drawings of exotic animals in the imperial menagerie, among other things. He specialized in grotesque symbolical compositions of fruits, animals, landscapes, or various inanimate objects arranged into human forms. The odd still life portraits were clearly partly intended as curiosities to amuse the court; critics, however, have speculated as to how seriously they were associated with Renaissance Neo-Platonism or other intellectual currents of the day.
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Registered works
22
In museum collections
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Selected from 22 works by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in the Collect24 Registry.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Juristen, möjligen Ulrich Zasius, 1461-1536, humanist, rättslärd, 1566
Nationalmuseum Sweden
C24-174685
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67, 1564–65
Pen and brown ink, brush with pale brown and purple wash, over soft black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, some sketches over black chalk (verso)
35.1 × 26.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-498980
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Archduchess Johanna, 1562
color
34 × 26 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
C24-440768
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Erzherzogin Magdalena (1532-1590), 1563
oil paint
44 × 33.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
C24-440762
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Maximilian II, His Wife and Three Children, 1563
oil paint
240 × 188 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
C24-440752
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Allegory of Winter, 1563
oil paint
67 × 51 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
C24-436488
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Bust of a Daughter of Ferdinand I, 1563
oil paint
44 × 34 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum
C24-433866
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Cooking, after 1569
Engraving
37.9 × 27.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-394096
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Agriculture, after 1569
Engraving
37.3 × 25 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-390489
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Allegory of Autumn, 1561
83.8 × 56.5 cm
Bavarian State Painting Collections
C24-186211
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Allegory of Spring, 1550
oil paint
84 × 57 cm
Bavarian State Painting Collections
C24-186209
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Four Seasons in One Head, c. 1590
oil on panel
60.4 × 44.7 cm
National Gallery of Art
C24-101600
Museums and collections
Where works by Giuseppe Arcimboldo are registered
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
Austria
10 works
- Department of Paintings of the Louvre
France
4 works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
3 works
- Bavarian State Painting Collections
Germany
2 works
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
- Nationalmuseum
Sweden
1 work
- Nationalmuseum Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
1 work
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