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Guiseppe Arcimboldo Renaissance Art Milan Holy Roman Empire
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Sandra Forty
Sandra Forty is a graduate of London University where she studied medieval and early modern history, including a spell at the Courtauld Institute learning about Renaissance art from Professor Gombrich. Since then she has worked as a journalist in London, then as a book editor and writer. She is the author of a number of books, most on art and architecture. Sandra lives in south Devon with her husband, children and many cats.
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Arcimboldo - Sandra Forty
GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO 1527–1593
One of the most bizarrely creative artists to emerge during the High Renaissance is the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who painted extraordinary portraits using vegetables, fruits, flowers, plant roots, wild animals and various other creatures, and natural objects. He started as a generic artist working on religious projects then moved on to conventional portraiture that apparently spontaneously blossomed into exotic eccentricity. Arcimboldo’s paintings are full of puns and jokes and allegorical meanings that would have been easy for his contemporary Renaissance audience to interpret and enjoy but these meanings are lost on later generations.
Although Arcimboldo is known to have been a prolific artist, only around twenty of his paintings are still known to exist. He is an artist who became famous and celebrated within his lifetime but almost entirely disappeared from public consciousness after his death and the end of the Renaissance. He remained an obscure footnote painter for centuries, during which time many of his paintings disappeared: it is possible that there are many unattributed pre-assemblage Arcimboldo portraits lurking in collections and museums around Europe. His genius was rediscovered centuries later by the Surrealist artists working in the 1930s, since when his work has been appreciated for its unique originality and extraordinary qualities.
Arcimboldo started his professional career as a conventional religious artist, one of many Renaissance painters earning a reasonable living in the churches and courts of Europe. But these early works have long since been overlooked for his far more original and fantastical organic paintings that even in his lifetime earned him an original reputation and much admiration. Perhaps it was to ease the tedium that Arcimboldo started to elaborate his work with extraordinary and original imaginings and create his still life portraits; it has been speculated that he was inspired in part by Leonardo da Vinci’s grotesques.
These paintings lie in somewhat strange ground half way between still lives and portraiture and although in modern times his work has been linked to the Symbolist movement, Arcimboldo is most often is labeled as a Mannerist in
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