Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "Vertumnus" (1590), oil on panel, 27 1/2 x 22 4/5 inches; Skokloster Castle, Skokloster, Sweden (via Wikimedia Commons) It was in Prague, that red-tile-roofed city of dreaming ...

With a berry for an eye, a pear for a nose, and grapes and leaves for a crown of hair, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s faces have maintained a captivating and quizzical presence in art history for nearly 500 ...

A keen observer as well as celebrated wit, Arcimboldo created composite portraits that were both enjoyed as jokes and taken very seriously. Skokloster Castle, Skokloster The job of a renaissance court ...

Of all the Mannerists’ winks, smirks and capers, the composite heads imagined by the 16th-century Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo must be the weirdest. Substituting fruits, vegetables and other ...