Winter
Artwork
Medium:
Giclée
Date:
1573
Dimensions:
Artworks -
Height: 32 in
Width: 24 in
Description:
Portrait of a man whose body is made out of plants.
Historical Context:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books-that is he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.