Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1591
Oil on panel
Renaissance
Skokloster Castle, Sweden
Based on the figure in this painting, what period would you guess it's from? The Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo might be one of the first ever painters to dabble with Surrealism, creating portraits of humans completely composed out of everyday objects, such as this portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, where the Emperor's likeness is found in an odd arrangement of fruits and vegetables.
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