Air by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1566

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Air by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1566

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Movie Poster Prints

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Painting

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1526 to 1593 was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

The portrait’s hair is created using many tightly-packed birds, none of whom can be properly identified due to the way in which they all fight for prominence. However, some more important ones can be recognized. The most prominent bird is the peacock, which makes up the entirety of the portrait’s body with its full spread and elegant plumage. The peacock was a symbol commonly used by the Hapsburg Dynasty, of which Arcimboldo’s patron Maximillian II was a member. Their other common bird symbol, the eagle, can be found peering out from behind the peacock’s feathers at the bottom right of the painting

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