The fascinating Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s portraits made out of fruits, vegetables and fish, 1563-1591

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A cucumber forms a bulbous nose; the open maul of a wolf simulates an eye; a striking iron is an ear; a shark is a mouth; a pile of books composes a torso. These are some of the startling details in the composite paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593) that are made up of disparate but […]