With a berry for an eye, a pear for a nose, and grapes and leaves for a crown of hair, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s faces have maintained a captivating and quizzical presence in art history for nearly 500 ...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "Vertumnus" (1590), oil on panel, 27 1/2 x 22 4/5 inches; Skokloster Castle, Skokloster, Sweden (via Wikimedia Commons) It was in Prague, that red-tile-roofed city of dreaming ...

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 ...

After an eight-month absence, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s suite of paintings “The Four Seasons” (1573) has reclaimed its spot in the Louvre Museum. The portraits now hanging in the Denon Wing, however, are ...

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 ...

Of all the Mannerists’ winks, smirks and capers, the composite heads imagined by the 16th-century Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo must be the weirdest. Substituting fruits, vegetables and other ...

Sixteenth century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo followed in the footsteps of his father, Biagio, training in stained glass and fresco painting. But it was this imaginative Italian's curious take on ...

On a recent trip to the National Gallery of Art, I stopped in to see the Arcimboldo exhibit, which we feature in the magazine this month. When I saw the images in print, I had been fascinated by their ...

Born to a Milanese artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo became a court portraitist in 1562, when he began delighting his Hapsburg patrons with lavish and bizarre portraits composed entirely of fruits, ...

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.