
Four Seasons in One Head
Catalogue
- Year
- 1590
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- overall: 60.4 × 44.7 cm (23 3/4 × 17 5/8 in.) framed: 90.49 × 71.76 × 11.43 cm (35 5/8 × 28 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Artist

Painting
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi, was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
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Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67
1564 · Pen and brown ink, brush with pale brown and purple wash, over soft black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, some sketches over black chalk (verso)
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- Year
- 1590
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- overall: 60.4 × 44.7 cm (23 3/4 × 17 5/8 in.) framed: 90.49 × 71.76 × 11.43 cm (35 5/8 × 28 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1590-285823
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified


