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 ...

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 ...

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 ...