# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giuseppe-arcimboldo
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:37.978Z

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name: "Giuseppe Arcimboldo"
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description: "He painted portraits out of pears and parsnips. Giuseppe Arcimboldo turned human faces into arrangements of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and fish — part courtly joke, part unsettling riddle that still hasn't quite been solved."
tagline: "Italian painter of the late Renaissance (1527–1593)"
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birthDate: "1527"
deathDate: "1593-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Milan on 5 April 1527, Arcimboldo spent most of his career as a conventional court painter serving three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague, producing religious works and detailed drawings of the imperial menagerie's exotic animals. But alongside that dutiful output, he developed a second practice: grotesque symbolic compositions in which fruits, vegetables, landscapes, fish, books, and inanimate objects were arranged into human forms. The still life portraits amused the court as curiosities, though critics still argue over whether they engaged seriously with Renaissance Neo-Platonism or simply reveled in visual wit. He died in Milan on 11 July 1593, leaving behind a body of work split down the middle — half standard, half strange.