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Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Arcimboldo was an Italian painter who was famous as the creator of imaginative portrait heads made of vegetable, fruits, flowers, fish, books, sea creatures and tree roots. He had executed many stained glass window designs, ”Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria” at the Duomo and frescoes at the Cathedral at Monza. He had painted cartoons for the tapestry at the Cathedral of Como. He was court portraitist, painter and decorator to Ferdinand I, Maxmilian II and Rudolf II. Arcimboldo’s traditional religious paintings have been consigned to the dustbins of history, but his portrait-heads made of fruits etc are admired even today. His paintings and portraits are at Kunsthistorisches Museum and Habsburg Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, Louvre in Paris, and also in Sweden. Some of his art pieces are to be seen at Uffizi and at Cremona and Brescia in Italy. In the US his paintings can be seen at Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford CON, Denver Art Museum at Denver COL, and Menil Foundation at Houston TX and at Candie Museum in Guernsey.

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Air	Fire	Earth	Water
The Librarian	The Lawyer	The Cook	Spring.
Summer.	Autumn.	Winter.	Self-Portrait.
Eve and the Apple	Vertumnus		Flora