Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "Vertumnus" (1590), oil on panel, 27 1/2 x 22 4/5 inches; Skokloster Castle, Skokloster, Sweden (via Wikimedia Commons) It was in Prague, that red-tile-roofed city of dreaming ...

After an eight-month absence, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s suite of paintings “The Four Seasons” (1573) has reclaimed its spot in the Louvre Museum. The portraits now hanging in the Denon Wing, however, are ...

With a berry for an eye, a pear for a nose, and grapes and leaves for a crown of hair, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s faces have maintained a captivating and quizzical presence in art history for nearly 500 ...

Born to a Milanese artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo became a court portraitist in 1562, when he began delighting his Hapsburg patrons with lavish and bizarre portraits composed entirely of fruits, ...

A keen observer as well as celebrated wit, Arcimboldo created composite portraits that were both enjoyed as jokes and taken very seriously. Skokloster Castle, Skokloster The job of a renaissance court ...

Sixteenth century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo followed in the footsteps of his father, Biagio, training in stained glass and fresco painting. But it was this imaginative Italian's curious take on ...

A historic moment for the market, The Winter Egg by Fabergé has sold for £22,895,000/ $30,244,295/ €26,008,720, setting a new world auction record for a work by Fabergé for the third time in its ...

The Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612), a great patron of the arts and sciences, was also one of the European rulers most keenly interested in the study of nature. The Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf ...