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The sixteenth century Italian artist,?Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 – 1593), is famous for his extraordinary series of portraits he painted in which the facial features of his sitters were created entirely with images of fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish and other objects. One of his most important patrons was?Rudolf II of Habsburg, who commissioned a number of Arcimboldo’s unusual portraits, including this one of Rudolf as Vertumnus, the Roman god of seasons, gardens and fruit trees.?Arcimboldo’s famous paintings of the four seasons below. Can you work out which season is which? Why?Image reversal: The bowl of vegetables becomes a portrait of “The Gardener” ................
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