GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO

BIOGRAPHY

GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO (1527 – 1593)

Description Italian painter

Date of birth/death 1527 1593

Location of birth/death Milan Milan

Work location Milan/ Viena / Prague

GENERAL INFORMATION

WORKS

• Arcimboldo's portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures and tree roots.

• His works showed not only nature and human beings, but also how closely they were related.

WHERE CAN WE FIND HIS WORKS?

Kunsthistorisches Museum(Vienna, Austria)

Ambras Castle(Innsbruck, Austria)

Louvre Museum(Paris, France)

Bellas Artes of San Fernando Museum (Madrid)

Denver Art Museum(Colorado)

HE CREATED THE FOUR SEASONS (1573)

Spring, 1573 (the third Spring version), Louvre Museum, Paris

Summer, 1572, KunsthistorischesMuseum Vienna,

Austria

Autumn, 1573,Louvre Museum,

Paris

Winter, 1573, oil on canvas,

Louvre Museum, Paris

HE ALSO CREATED THE FOUR ELEMENTS

Air.Mady by birds.

Fire.Mady by multiple

elements

Earth.Made by Land

Animals.

Water.Made by Fish

and Seaanimals

SOME OTHER WORKS

SOME OTHER WORKS

SOME OTHER WORKS

SOME OTHER WORKS