arcimboldo
350,00 €Year of creation: c. 1566 Original size: no verified figure; the original is in a private collection, so we do not state its size Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on canvas Located: Private collection, Basel, Switzerland In oil on canvas Air, the author painted a large number […]
from 350,00 €Year of creation: c. 1591 Original size: no verified figure; the original is in a private collection, so we do not state its size Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on canvas Located: Private collection, Paris The whole body of the figure in this oil on canvas seems […]
350,00 €This painting shows an old bearded man in full profile, turned to the left. Step close and it becomes clear what he is made of: his forehead, cheek, hair and beard are not skin and hair at all but a crowd of small naked infant bodies, climbing over one another […]
350,00 €The Librarian is a portrait built entirely out of books: an open volume for hair, stacked spines for a torso, a bundle of animal hair for a beard. The original of 1562 is held by Skokloster Castle in Sweden under inventory number 11616_SKO and measures 98 x 71 cm. With [...]
from 350,00 €Year of creation: 1591 Original size: 58 cm x 70 cm (width x height; 580 x 700 mm) Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on panel Located: Skokloster Castle, Sweden (inv. 11615_SKO) The oil on panel depicts the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II in the image of Vertumnus, the […]
from 350,00 €Year of creation: 1573 Original size: 63.5 cm x 76 cm (width x height; 635 x 760 mm) Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on canvas Located: The Louvre, Paris Arcimboldo imagined the person portrayed in the paintingAutumn as a composition of an already slightly decayed wooden cypress, held together […]
350,00 €Year of creation: 1573 Original size: 63.6 cm x 76 cm (width x height; 636 x 760 mm) Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on canvas Located: The Louvre, Paris The painting Winter represents the last artwork in the Seasons series. In keeping with the season, Winter depicts […]
from 350,00 €Year of creation: 1573 Original size: 64 cm x 76 cm (width x height; 640 x 760 mm) Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on canvas Located: The Louvre, Paris The picture Summer is completely depicted from different types of fruits and vegetables. A close look reveals the […]
350,00 €Year of creation: 1573 Original size: 63.5 cm x 76 cm (width x height; 635 x 760 mm) 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 […]
from 350,00 €Year of creation: c. 1570 Original size: no verified figure Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on panel Located: LIECHTENSTEIN. Die Fürstlichen Sammlungen, Vaduz–Vienna The painting builds a head in profile, turned to the left, entirely out of land animals. There is neither skin nor hair: every part […]
from 350,00 €Despite the ingredients, in the background of these paintings there is a praise and glorification of the three different emperors that Arcimboldo served. The emperor is a representative of the microcosm who rules the state of the subjects, and at the same time reigns over the universal world. Arcimbold’s […]
350,00 €Year of creation: 1566 Original size: 51 cm x 66.5 cm (width x height; 510 x 665 mm) Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on panel Located: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The oil on canvas Fire is particularly interesting, because on it Arcimboldo depicted different types of fire – […]
from 350,00 €Year of creation: 1566 Original size: 50.5 cm x 66.5 cm (width x height; 505 x 665 mm) Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on alder panel Located: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Water is so rich with different types of aquatic animals that it would be almost impossible to […]
350,00 €Year of creation: c. 1578 Original size: no verified figure; the original is in a private collection, so we do not state its size Painting style: Mannerism Original technique: Oil on canvas Located: no verified figure ‘s private collection Arcimboldo’s portraits of people, in which the faces of […]