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            Although Giuseppe Arcimboldo was extremely famous during his lifetime, he was soon forgotten after his death. We do not know why people ever lost interest in his art. Perhaps he was misunderstood by the generations that followed. The interest to his abstruse and fantastic pictures, of which we only have a very few originals, nowadays, revived only at the end of the 19th century. Apart from the fantastic pictures, he probably painted quite a few more traditional ones. But many of these, too, seem to have disappeared.
            Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born into the family of a painter for the Milan Cathedral in 1527. The other variants of the name: Josephus, Joseph or Josepho Arcimboldi or Arcimboldus. It is uncertain which version is the correct one, because the painter used all these variants to sign his works. Many art historians agreed to use the variant of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Continued...

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	Air. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland.
	Fire. 1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
	Earth. c.1570. Oil on wood. Private collection, Vienna, Austria.
	Water. 1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
	The Librarian. c.1566. Oil on canvas. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden.
	The Lawyer. 1566. Oil on canvas. Statens Konstsamlingar, Gripsholm Slott, Stokholm, Sweden.
	The Cook, a visual pun which can be turned upside down. c.1570. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Stokholm, Sweden.
	Spring. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Summer. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Autumn. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Winter. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Self-Portrait. c.1575. Blue pen-and-wash drawing. Narodni Gallery, Prague, Chechia.
	Eve and the Apple, with Counterpart. 1578. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland.
	The Vegetable Gardener, a visual pun which can be turned upside down. c.1590. Oil on wood. Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italy.
	Vertumnus. 1590-1591. Oil on wood. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden. More.
	Flora. c.1591. Oil on wood. Private collection, Paris, France. More.