Earth by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1566

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Earth by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1566

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Movie Poster Prints

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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.

Arcimboldo composes “Earth” from a variety of animals, and this portrait helps to establish the artist not only as a student of the everyday but also of the exotic. For nestled among the deer, mice, wolves, donkeys and sheep one can discover an ibex, an elephant, a lion and a camel, among others. The color palette used for “Earth” does not stray far from browns, reds, and oranges, suggesting the soil and woods without needing either to actually create the face. Arcimboldo utilizes the delicate form and points of the various animals’ antlers to c¬¬reate a coronet, thus crowning his earthly goddess. As a ruler,

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