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Renaissance Surrealism

Posted in Art, Oddities by Greg Ross on July 14th, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Giuseppe_Arcimboldo_-_Winter%2C_1573.jpg

There's no mistaking a portrait by Giuseppe Arcimboldo — the Milanese painter represented his subjects as masses of flowers, vegetables, fruits, and fish. These personifications of the four seasons were composed between 1563 and 1573.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arcimboldo%2C_Giuseppe_%7E_Summer%2C_1573%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre%2C_Paris.jpg