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Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1562 he became the court portraitist to Maximilian II at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and later, to his son Rudolf II, both of whom seem to have much liked Arcimboldo's extraordinary portraits. |
| | His style of early pre-surrealist portraiture was much copied by his contemporaries, making it difficult at times to differentiate his work from that of imitators. |
| | Instead of portraying people by employing fish, birds, and other animals or vegetation, these imitations of his style use nude female forms to parody the famous men and women whom the paintings parody, frequently depicting their subjects as rakes, satyrs, or devils. |
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