Description
Giuseppe Arcimboldo – The Spring
| Year of creation: | 1573 |
| Original size: | 76 x 64 cm |
| Painting style: | Mannerism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | The Louvre, Paris |
If we look at the painting Spring from a distance, we can see that behind the countless flowers is the face of a young woman with a gentle smile, her nose is a lily bud, and her ear is a tulip flower.
The Four Seasons
This painting belongs to a cycle. All four are available here:
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Spring
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Summer
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Autumn
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Winter
Hung as a matched group of four, the sizes 30 × 40, 40 × 50, 50 × 60, 64 × 76, 70 × 80 cm work — every one of the four is available in them.
More on both cycles as a wall group: Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons and Four Elements as a wall group
Up close there is no skin, only blossom: a lily bud for the nose, a tulip for the ear, and the cheeks a dense mat of small field flowers. Only from a distance does a young woman’s face, mildly smiling, separate itself out. The original hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
Technique: oils on canvas, painted by hand; the oil painting reproduction is made to order.
