The Artistically Grotesque Paintings of 16th-Century Italian Painter
The paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century Italian painter who became famous for his grotesque and imaginative portrait heads made up of objects like flowers, fruits, animals, or various inanimate objects. Arcimboldo was a court painter for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague. His juxtaposition of still-life objects on human heads created curiosity in his contemporaries and has given an opportunity for art historians and scholars to interpret his whimsical art.
This article would cover Arcimboldo’s repertoire of art pieces, his most famous painting, and the symbolic interpretations of his paintings.
Arcimboldo’s paintings
The Librarian
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The Librarian is an oil on canvas painting created around 1562 and housed in the Skokloster Castle in Sweden. Arcimboldo created this art piece during the reign of Maximilian II who was the Holy Roman Emperor of the House of Habsburg.
This painting illustrates a body of a human made up of books and bookmarks.
