Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian mannerist painter, best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — by painting 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.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian mannerist painter, best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — by painting 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.
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