Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1528-1593), reopened to the public only in 1885, is considered the forgotten genius of the Renaissance.It is compared to Leonardo da Vinci.The terms of the interests of both was incredibly broad: they were lexicographer, both left posterity masterpieces and both were descendants of the forgotten.About Da Vinci remembered much earlier.There are other parallels - both geniuses have achieved recognition and money for yourself in life.One might add that their fathers were artists.
darling of fortune
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose paintings are interested in the royals for a long time (about 25 years) was a court painter to the Habsburg.With Rudolf II he had a personal friendship.Engineer, scientist, astrologer, organizer of the Kunstkammer, he was personally involved in completions royal collections.The high honor, he provided the court, it is the fact that in 1592 Giuseppe Archibaldo was granted a title of nobility with the right to own coat of arms and title of Palatine, the control of the royal palace in the absence of the owner.
first among equals
only three artists in the Holy Roman Empire were awarded this rank - Vercelli Sodom, Tiziano Vecellio and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.The artworks during his life is controversial.Someone said it was the fruit of his sick imagination, inspired by the Cabinet of Curiosities, someone liked the painting and the artist's thought experimenter.Anyway, later, his paintings were something new, totally unfamiliar.Absented his contemporaries, like Sodom, a mannerist.What it is?It is a literary and artistic movement of the late Renaissance, characterized by the loss of the high ideals of the Renaissance.There is no harmony between the spiritual and the corporeal nature of man.Mannerism inherent pretentiousness.
unique heritage
artist painted canvases in a classic style, but many pieces were lost, three survived, written by all the canons of painting - depicting the worship of the Magi, a portrait of a family portrait of the princess and the first patron of the artist Maximilian II.Poor even that Giuseppe Arcimboldo, paintings which now totals of 20 pieces, did not leave after the departure of any personal testimonies about themselves or about their paintings.Interest in him erupted after the publication of the monograph critic K. Casati in 1885.
uniqueness of each picture
Among the small heritage itself noticed mysterious and unique portrait busts.People on the like were collected from a variety of things, because of which they are often referred bacchanalia nature.But the fact that the random objects on the canvases there.Portrait of a librarian consists only of the things available in the reading room.Linen is included in the cycle "profession."There are three paintings, Changeling, the cycle "The Four Elements", "Seasons" and preserved in large numbers all over the legacy of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting "The Four Seasons", and all seasons are painted in several versions.The largest number of paintings titled "Spring."These works are so unusual that erupted quite understandable interest in them.
Honored demand
There just definitions did not deserve these paintings, with which only they did not compare.In the first half of the XX century, in 1920 there was a trend in painting as surrealism, representing a deformed reality, a kind of waking dream.Arcimboldo was seen as a forerunner of this trend.Although his portraits present natural philosophy rather than a dream, but rather a forerunner of surrealism Hieronymus Bosch - that someone deformed reality and dreams!Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose pictures are in a very interesting manner, the founder has not indicated direction.His style acquires followers and supporters more and more.As noted above, the portraits are composed of subjects specific to the stated theme - every time of the year correspond to only occur in nature at this time of things.If the picture is called "shifter", the portrait visible and the one and the other side.All matched precisely in accordance with each other.Very unique and wonderful master!
