Arcimboldo: 125 Colour Plates

by Maria Peitcheva

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...

• 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"