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 ...

Abigail Tucker is the magazine’s staff writer. A self-portrait by Giuseppe Arcimboldo c. 1575 at around age 48. Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY A keen observer as well as celebrated wit ...

Man Ray made a direct homage in paint to the gnarled-branch face of Arcimboldo’s “Winter.” Alfred Barr, the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, included Arcimboldo in a 1936 show ...

Centred on a trove of oil paintings borrowed from museums around the world, 'Nature into Art' also includes several related materials and works by artists influenced by Arcimboldo.

On a recent trip to the National Gallery of Art, I stopped in to see the Arcimboldo exhibit, which we feature in the magazine this month. When I saw the images in print, I had been fascinated by ...

Sixteenth century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo followed in the footsteps of his father, Biagio, training in stained glass and fresco painting. But it was this imaginative Italian's curious take on ...

After an eight-month absence, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s suite of paintings “The Four Seasons” (1573) has reclaimed its spot in the Louvre Museum. The portraits now hanging in the Denon Wing ...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593), the greatest visual comedian of the Italian Renaissance, made displacement the theme of his art. In the 20 or so portraits that sustain his reputation, he depicted ...