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                           Arcimboldo Giuseppe
    Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1530-1593)

Italian painter, whose witty allegorical compositions foreshadowed 20th-century surrealist art (see surrealism).

                           Arcimboldo Giuseppe   

He began as a designer of stained glass and tapestry in his native Milan; in 1562 he moved to Prague and then to Vienna, where he became painter to the Habsburg court.

           

                           Arcimboldo Giuseppe

Arcimboldo invented a portrait type consisting of painted animals, flowers, fruit, and objects composed to form a human likeness. Some are satiric portraits of court personages, and others are allegorical personifications.
 
                                Arcimboldo Giuseppe