Peintre italien arcimboldo biography

Was he a genius or insane—or a little of both? Some say Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was 400 years ahead of his time. His stunning surrealist portrait creations using inanimate objects such as fruits, vegetables, fish, books, animals, tree roots and other natural items are still stunning today.

His paintings appear at once to be incredibly modern, yet at the same time, in defiance of any era, trend or categorization.

Many people who encounter his work for the first time assume that Arcimboldo is some artist working today using computer graphics or other cutting-edge techniques to produce bizarre creations – yet his work is more than 400 years old, generated during the High Renaissance.

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Arcimboldo was born in Milan