Autunno di giuseppe arcimboldo biography

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    File:Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Autumn, 1573.jpg

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    Title
    French:
    L'Automne 

    Autumn

    label QS:Lde,"Herbst"

    label QS:Len,"Autumn"

    Part ofThe Four Seasons Series titleThe Quaternary Seasons Object typepainting

    object_type QS:P31,Q3305213

    Genreallegory Date 1573

    date QS:P571,+1573-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

    Mediumoil contact canvas

    medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259

    Dimensions height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 64 cm (25.1 in)

    dimensions QS:P2048,76U174728

    dimensions QS:P2049,64U174728

    Collection

    institution QS:P195,Q19675

    Current locationAccession numberReferencesAuthority fileSource/Photographer Giuseppe ArcimboldoOther versions
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    The bizarre works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo🎨, especially his multiple images, were rediscovered in the early 20th century by Surrealist artists🎨 like Salvador Dali🎨.

    Arcimboldo🎨 was born in Milan in 1527, the son of Biagio, a painter who did work for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo. Arcimboldo was commissioned to do stained glass window designs beginning in 1549, including the Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria vitrage at the Duomo.
    In 1556 he worked with Giuseppe Meda on frescoes for the Cathedral of Monza.
    In 1558, he drew the cartoon for a large tapestry of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, which still hangs in the Como Cathedral today.








    In 1562 he became court portraitist to Ferdinand I at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and later, to Maximilian II and his son Rudolf II at the court in Prague. He was also the court decorator and costume designer. King Augustus of Saxony, who visited Vienna in 1570 and 1573, saw Arcimboldo's work and commissioned a copy of his "The Four Seasons" which incorporates his own monarchic symbols.

    Arcimboldo's conventional work, on traditional religious subjects, has fallen into oblivion, but his portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, fruit and tree roots, were greatly admired by his contemporaries and re

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    Autumn is Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s oil on canvas painting made in 1573. The painting is currently in Paris at the Musée du Louvre. The Musée du Louvre considers it a public domain hence tagged as portraits.

    The image shows a whole profile of vegetables, fruits, and plants related to autumn. Giovanna Battista Fonteo accompanied Giuseppe Arcimboldo's work with a poem to explain the allegorical meaning. The image represents autumn with a grumpy man looking to the left side of the portrait. The face of the man is rough since it is made of fruits. It is hard to recognise the portrait has an image of a man if looked at close range. At far, the portrait resembles a normal man, but as the viewer approaches, fruits are visible.

    The neck is made up of some vegetables and two pears. It looks like it is emerging from a destroyed vat bound with willow branches. Several pears and apples are on his face, especially the nose and cheek. The chin is made up of pomegranate. The ear is fitted with a fig-shaped earing but made up of a mushroom. The fruits used to make the mouth and lips are chestnuts. Giuseppe Arcimboldo used a bunch of grapes to make the hair and a single pumpkin as his bonnet. A