'Vertumnus' by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1590-1591)

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'Vertumnus' is the God of Seasons, so it is quite clear how the range of seasons have been incorporated into this seminal (means 'important') art piece by Archimboldo. Finished between 1590-1591, this piece was just one of the many portraits Archimboldo composed using a range of different items. It is painted on wood using oil paints and currently resides in Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi) (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.

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