Personer och institutioner
Arcimboldo, Archimboldo, Giuseppe
| Förnamn |
Giuseppe
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| Efternamn |
Arcimboldo, Archimboldo
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| Födelsedatum |
1526
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| Dödsdatum |
1593
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| Yrke/verksamhet |
Konstnär, Mästare
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| Aktivitet/plats |
Verksamhetstid 1549 – 1593
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| Biografi |
Little is known of the early life of Arcimboldo, there is no record of under whom he studied, nor does it seem to be any surviving easel painting dating from this time. What we do know is that Arcimboldo, like many Italian artists, carried out multiple tasks at various places, like designing stained glass windows, frescos and tapestries at Milan, Como and Monza. However, all of this changed when he went to the Habsburg court in 1562, first in Vienna and later in Prague, where he served as court painter to three Emperors, Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II. Although now in a European spotlight he still devoted himself to different tasks like portraits, designed festivals, drawings for silk manufactors and made aquisitions for the imperial collections. Arcimboldo did not start to paint his signature heads and figures until he came to the Habsburg court, and it has therefore been argued that the motifs derived from the ideas of life that florished at court during this period of time.
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