Part of the Sticker Art Shapes series, this book offers children a chance to get to know six of Arcimboldo’s paintings on a truly interactive level. Young readers see a finished painting on one
Famous all over the world for his portraits—an illustrated composite of plants, fruit, and animals combined to create the illusion of a human form— Arcimboldo still remains, paradoxically, a painter s
In Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man’s chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a n
In this companion to his The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque.In this interdisciplinary stu
Enter the imaginary world of a most unusual artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo creates highly original portraits by placing objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, leaves, fish, and shells next to
Arcimboldo’s famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter’s face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into
Piero Fornasetti was a master of the decorative imagination. His motifs conjure up the illusionism of Arcimboldo, the grand architectural fantasies of Piranesi and Palladio, and something of the wit o
While it is common knowledge in Surrealist studies that the Surrealists appropriated historical figures such as Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the Marquis de Sade as "proto-Surrealist," the significance of t
