Arcimboldo: 125 Colour Plates
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 - 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. Arcimboldo's conventional work, on traditional religious subjects, has fallen into oblivion, but his portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures and tree roots, were greatly admired by his contemporaries and remain a source of fascination today. At a distance, his portraits looked like normal human portraits. However, individual objects in each portrait were actually overlapped together to make various anatomical shapes of a human. They were carefully constructed by his imagination. Besides, when he assembled objects in one portrait, he never used random objects. Each object was related by characterization. By using everyday objects, the portraits were decoration and still-life paintings at the same time.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1534751289
ISBN13:9781534751286
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:56 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:11.0" x 0.1" x 8.5"
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