Giuseppe Arcimboldo wasn’t your typical Italian Renaissance court painter, said Gabe Starosta in Roll Call. His portraits were like nothing else seen before—“strikingly original” compositions for ...

Milan-born Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593) both charmed and confused his contemporaries with fanciful portrait heads made of items such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

A keen observer as well as celebrated wit, Arcimboldo created composite portraits that were both enjoyed as jokes and taken very seriously. Skokloster Castle, Skokloster The job of a renaissance court ...

A photographer has made a real meal out of a selection of classic 16th century paintings by recreating them using fruit and vegetables. New York based photographer Klaus Enrique Gerdes was inspired by ...

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It takes a lot of chutzpah to reduce one of the most powerful men on Earth to a pile of fruits and vegetables. Luckily for art lovers, Giuseppe Arcimboldo had nerve to spare. Arcimboldo created this ...

Born into a noble Milanese family, Giuseppe Arcimboldo was working as independent artist by 1549, when he provided paintings and designs for stained glass windows for the Duomo in Milan. He remained ...

Aside from World Cup rugby and Velib, the self-service bike-sharing program that at the moment seems to obsess le tout Paris, the most amusing cultural diversion here is the Giuseppe Arcimboldo ...