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Zoology

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Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language defines lizard as “an animal resembling a serpent, with legs added to it.”

August 5, 2024August 4, 2024 | Language · Science & Math

Self-Made Man

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The Cook, a reversible portrait by Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, circa 1570.

Arcimboldo made a whole series of such paintings.

June 25, 2021 | Art

A Familiar Face

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The Waiter, by Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, circa 1574.

Is it a still life or a portrait?

January 12, 2021January 10, 2021 | Art

Still Life

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Four Seasons in One Head, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, painted around 1590 and rediscovered only in 2006.

The Renaissance master regularly made people out of things.

October 30, 2020October 29, 2020 | Art

You Are What You Eat

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Invertible Head as Basket of Fruit, c. 1590, by the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

He also personified the elements and the seasons.

August 10, 2015August 8, 2015 | Art

Essential Characters

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Three years after personifying the four seasons, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) did the same for the four elements.

“There is no unemployed force in Nature,” wrote Emerson. “All decomposition is recomposition.”

September 20, 2010September 19, 2010 | Art

You Are What You Eat

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This 1590 painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo is both a still life and a portrait — when it’s inverted, the bowl of vegetables becomes the greengrocer who sold it.

March 29, 2010December 16, 2010 | Art

A Risky Compliment

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In Vertumnus, Giuseppe Arcimboldo portrayed his patron Rudolf II as the Roman god of growth and change. Fortunately, Rudolf appreciated the metaphor and awarded Arcimboldo one of his highest orders.

See also Renaissance Surrealism and The Librarian.

January 31, 2008October 4, 2010 | Art · History

“The Librarian”

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo‘s caricature of Rudolf II’s historiographer and librarian, Wolfgang Lazio (1514-1565) — a collector of coins and a lover of books.

August 16, 2007December 3, 2008 | Art · Oddities

Renaissance Surrealism

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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.

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July 14, 2007November 13, 2010 | Art · Oddities

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