(Milan 1527 - 1593)
Giuseppe Archimboldo was an Italian Mannerist painter. He began designing the stained-glass windows and the tapestries used in the Milan Cathedral. Archimboldo set up in Prague in 1562 and later he went to Vienna where he worked as a painter at The Habsburg Court. He went back to Italy in 1587. On the contrary of what has been said, his painting has nothing to do with Modern Surrealism, but it is based on the liking for allegory typical of the Renaissance, and...
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