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Ad Code: 2
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Vertumnus 1590/91 (oil on wood)
Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian (1527-1593)
One of the most bizarre and distinctive painters in the whole of art history, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) owes his reputation to the series of composite portraits of heads made up of a variety of objects, both natural and man-made. Most of these paintings were created at the court of Rudolf II, who hired Arcimboldo as his court painter, placing him at the center of Rudolf's eccentric menagerie of artists, scientists and charlatans.
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