Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who had painted in his …
Years: 1563 - 1563
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who had painted in his youth for the Milan Cathedral in his native city, had in his middle thirties entered the service of the Habsburgs in Vienna and Prague in 1562, and become court painter to Maximilian.
He paints a Four Seasons series in 1563 in the grotesque style for which he is gaining fame.
Many of his works are paintings of bizarre heads formed by combinations of fruits, flowers, animals, or fish.
