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Giuseppe Arcimboldo worked at the imperial court in Vienna and Prague. In addition to actual portraits, he painted imaginary heads composed of flowers, plants, animals, kitchen utensils or food. Thanks to prints such as these, his inventions were also known and admired outside court circles. Since then they have been imitated so often that even nowadays one can speak of the Arcimboldo effect in relation to fantastically constructed works of art.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593) was an Italian painter famous for his extravagant paintings of human faces in the form of compositions of fruit and vegetables, often with portrait likenesses. The forgotten Renaissance artist was proclaimed in the twentieth century as a forerunner of Surrealism. This suggests that the artist was well ahead of his time and deserves to be known not only by specialists but also by the general public.
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