This second artist is something that completely suprised me. You just wouldn't expect such abstract work to come out of a 16th century painter.
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| Spring, 1573 |
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits,vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.
(text source - wikipedia)
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| The Four Seasons |
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| Sorry don't know the title! |
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| The Jurist |
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| Vertumnus - portrait of Rudolf II |
Weird or what...
Lots of love
Lucy
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