Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Arcimboldo builds faces out of fruit, flowers, fish and books — witty composite heads where every feature is another object. Once seen, never mistaken.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593) was a painter from Italy, associated with Mannerism.

A late-Renaissance style of elongated figures, complex spiralling poses, and unnatural colour, prizing elegance and tension over calm harmony. Mannerism →