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 +[[Image:Eruption of Vesuvius (Turner).jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Vesuvius in Eruption (William Turner)|Vesuvius in Eruption]]'' (1817-20) by William Turner is located in Connecticut]]
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-'''Giuseppe Arcimboldo''' (also spelled '''Arcimboldi'''; [[1527]] - [[July 11]] [[1593]]) was a [[16th century]] [[Italian painter]] best known for creating imaginative portrait [[human head|head]]s 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. +A state of the United States of America. Capital: Hartford.
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-==Biography==+
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-In [[1562]] he became the court portraitist to [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian II]] at the [[Habsburg]] court in [[Vienna]], and later, to his son [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Rudolf II]] at the court in [[Prague]], both of whom seem to have much liked Arcimboldo's extraordinary portraits.+
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-He was also the court decorator, costume designer, and general art expert. His style of early pre-[[surrealist]] portraiture was much copied by his contemporaries, making it difficult at times to differentiate his work from that of imitators. Ironically, given the fame of the imaginary portraits, Arcimboldo's conventional work has been all but forgotten.+
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-He died in Milan.+
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-Many of his works were stolen from Rudolf II's collections by the Sweden Raids on Prague in 1648 during the [[Thirty Years' War]] by orders of [[Christina of Sweden]].+
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-His works can be found in Vienna's [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] and the [[Ambras Castle|Habsburg Schloss Ambras]] in [[Innsbruck]], the [[Louvre]] in Paris, as well as numerous museums in Sweden. In Italy, his work is in [[Cremona]], [[Brescia]], and the [[Uffizi Gallery]] in [[Florence]]. The [[Wadsworth Atheneum]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]], [[Connecticut]], and at the Candie Museum, Guernsey, also contain pieces of his work.+
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-==The Arcimboldo Legacy==+
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-The [[bizarre]] works of [[Arcimboldo]], especially his multiple [[image]]s, were rediscovered in the early [[20th century]] by [[Surrealist]] artists like [[Salvador Dalí]]. The “[[The Arcimboldo Effect]]” curated by [[Pontus Hultén]] in [[1987]] included numerous [[trompe-l'oeil]] paintings. Arcimboldo's influence can also be seen in the work of [[Shigeo Fukuda]], [[István Orosz]], [[Octavio Ocampo]], and [[Sandro del Prete]], as well as the films of [[Jan Švankmajer]]. His painting, ''[[Water]]'', was used as the cover of the album ''[[Masque (album)|Masque]]'' by the [[progressive rock]] band [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]].+
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