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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, known above all for the “Compound Heads”, burlesque portraits executed by combining each other, in a sort of “Trompe-l’œil”, objects or elements of the same kind (fruit and vegetables, fish, birds, books, etc.) metaphorically connected to the represented subject, in order to sublimate the portrait itself.
Small librarian 12 cm
This statuette is inspired by the work The Librarian made by Arcimboldo in 1552 in oil
on wood and now preserved in the Skokloster castle in Stockholm, representing a torso of
man made with books stacked in different positions.
Arcimboldo Line Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, known above all for the “Compound Heads”, burlesque portraits executed by combining each other, in a sort of “Trompe-l’œil”, objects or elements of the same kind (fruit and vegetables, fish, birds, books, etc.) metaphorically connected to the represented subject, in order to sublimate the portrait itself. Small librarian 12 cm This statuette is inspired by the work The Librarian made by Arcimboldo in 1552 in oil on wood and now preserved in the Skokloster castle in Stockholm, representing a torso of man made with books stacked in different positions.
Arcimboldo Line Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, known above all for the “Compound Heads”, burlesque portraits executed by combining each other, in a sort of “Trompe-l’œil”, objects or elements of the same kind (fruit and vegetables, fish, birds, books, etc.) metaphorically connected to the represented subject, in order to sublimate the portrait itself. Small librarian 12 cm This statuette is inspired by the work The Librarian made by Arcimboldo in 1552 in oil on wood and now preserved in the Skokloster castle in Stockholm, representing a torso of man made with books stacked in different positions.
