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Giuseppe Arcimboldo

1526 - 1593

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books. These works form a distinct category from his other productions. He was a conventional court painter of portraits for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague; also producing religious subjects and, among other things, a series of coloured drawings of exotic animals in the imperial menagerie. He specialized in grotesque symbolical compositions of fruits, animals, landscapes, or various inanimate objects arranged into human forms. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Arcimboldo is the 45th most popular painter (up from 50th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Italy (down from 137th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Painter.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo is most famous for his portraits made of fruits, vegetables, and other objects.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 45 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Tintoretto, Gustave Courbet, Alphonse Mucha, Paolo Veronese, and Nicolas Poussin. After him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Caspar David Friedrich, Anthony van Dyck, Andrea del Verrocchio, Fra Angelico, and Paul Klee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1526, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 1. After him are Akechi Mitsuhide, Catherine Jagiellon, Elizabeth of Austria, Rafael Bombelli, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Benedict the Moor, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, and Bâkî. Among people deceased in 1593, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 1. After him are Christopher Marlowe, Emperor Ōgimachi, Juan de Herrera, Li Shizhen, Jacques Amyot, Maciej Stryjkowski, Symon Budny, Xu Wei, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, Hans Bol, and Abd al-Samad.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 161 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Innocent XIII (1655), Carlo Ancelotti (1959), Donato Bramante (1443), Michael Collins (1930), Pope Anacletus (1), and Pope Gregory IX (1160). After him are Numa Pompilius (-753), Cardinal Mazarin (1602), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Pope Eugene IV (1383), Enzo Ferrari (1898), and Pliny the Elder (23).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 12. Before him are Donatello (1386), Titian (1488), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), and Paolo Veronese (1528). After him are Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Fra Angelico (1400), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Giorgione (1478), Giovanni Bellini (1430), and Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448).

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