Giuseppe Arcimboldo


Giuseppe Arcimboldo Portrait
Name
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Life Dates
1527-1593
Country
Italy
Movement
Mannerism

Giuseppe Arcimboldo Biography

Although Giuseppe Arcimboldo was extremely famous during his lifetime, he was soon forgotten after his death. We do not know why people ever lost interest in his art. Perhaps he was misunderstood by the generations that followed. The interest to his abstruse and fantastic pictures, of which we only have a very few originals, nowadays, revived only at the end of the 19th century. Apart from the fantastic pictures, he probably painted quite a few more traditional ones. But many of these, too, seem to have disappeared. Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born into the family of a painter for the Milan Cathedral in 1527. Other spellings of his name include Josephus, Joseph or Josepho Arcimboldi or Arcimboldus. It is uncertain which version is the correct one, because the painter used all of them to sign his works. Many art historians agreed to use the variant of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.


Giuseppe Arcimboldo 16 Most Important Paintings and Artworks

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Air.
    Air.

    c. 1566. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Fire.
    Fire.

    1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Earth.
    Earth.

    c.1570. Oil on wood. Private collection, Vienna, Austria.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Water.
    Water.

    1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The Librarian.
    The Librarian.

    c.1566. Oil on canvas. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The Lawyer.
    The Lawyer.

    1566. Oil on canvas. Statens Konstsamlingar, Gripsholm Slott, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The Cook - a visual pun which can be turned upside down.
    The Cook - A Visual Pun Which Can Be Turned Upside Down.

    c.1570. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Stockholm, Sweden. Read Note.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Spring.
    Spring.

    1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Summer.
    Summer.

    1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Autumn.
    Autumn.

    1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Winter.
    Winter.

    1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Self-Portrait.
    Self-Portrait.

    c.1575. Blue pen-and-wash drawing. Narodni Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Eve and the Apple, with Counterpart.
    Eve And The Apple, With Counterpart.

    1578. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland. Read Note.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The Vegetable Gardener - a visual pun which can be turned upside down.
    The Vegetable Gardener - A Visual Pun Which Can Be Turned Upside Down.

    Oil on wood. Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italy. Read Note.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Vertumnus.
    Vertumnus.

    1590-1591. Oil on wood. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden. Read Note.

  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Flora.
    Flora.

    c.1591. Oil on wood. Private collection, Paris, France. Read Note.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo Bibliography

Arcimboldo by Federico Zeri. NDE Publishing, 2001.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527-1593 (Basic Art Series) by Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Werner Kriegeskorte. TASCHEN America Llc, 1994.

The Portrait of Eccentricity: Arcimboldo and the Mannerist Grotesque by Giancarlo Maiorino. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1991.

Hello, Fruit Face!: The Paintings of Guiseppe Arcimboldo (Adventures in Art) by Claudia Strand. Prestel, 1999.

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