Giuseppe Arcimboldo Oil Painting Reproductions

Giuseppe Arcimboldo is an Italian artist of portrait heads comprised entirely of fruit, vegetables, flowers, and other inanimate objects.  Arcimboldo’s highly individual paintings look, from a distance, like a conventional portrait. However, upon closer inspection, it is clear that elements of nature form the composition.

Arcimboldo was born in 1526, and his oil paintings are attributed to the Mannerism art movement, but using the style of Renaissance oil paintings and Baroque period art.  At the age of 36, Giuseppe Arcimboldo was appointed Portraitist to the Court of Ferdinand 1st in Vienna, Austria.  He remained there for 25 years.  During his life, he also held other illustrious appointments, including being appointed to the Court of Maximilian II and Rudolf II at the Prague Royal Court.  

Arcimboldo's extraordinary paintings were forgotten for many years.  In 2011, the National Gallery of Art in Washington held an exhibition with 16 of his paintings.  Since this time, his work has been rediscovered. The Four Seasons series of paintings are his most well know.  The series comprises Spring and Summer, both painted in 1563 and Autumn and Winter, both of which were painted during the early 1570s.  Spring and Summer are held by the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna, whilst Spring is held in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Autumn is at the Louvre in Paris.

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali and the greatest 20th-century artist, Pablo Picasso, are said to have rediscovered his work. Giuseppe Arcimboldo has been hailed as the "grandfather of Surrealism"

Buy painting reproductions of Arcimboldo’s unique and humorous flower head paintings.  Every oil on canvas painting is 100% hand-painted by one of our resident professional artists.

Replica paintings are for sale in many sizes, and we specialize in oversized wall art.

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