I think it is the 1600's, and they paint portraiture with facial feature pieces together from fruit.

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What school of endeavour or artist was responsible for this magnificent work?

― urins, Sunday, 25 December 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Arcimboldo
the also did books and fish, amongst others

http://www.educared.org.ar/tamtam/images/arcimboldo.jpg
http://smk.mef.hr/galerija-arcimboldo.jpg

― anthony, Sunday, 25 December 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

A google of 'fruit', 'venice' and 'portrait' found it in the end - but you were there for me if that had failed, anthony, thankyou!

― urins, Sunday, 25 December 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

i posted the fish one, which is my favourite, and it didnt work...:(

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

At one time I had a (photocopy of) a portrait of John Calvin, painted in the style, hanging up on my refrigerator.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. There's also a children's alphabet book that I remember v fondly that uses this idea. For each letter there's a chosen object (e = eggs, b = books, r = ribbons) and a man or woman built of the object. Very fanciful and detailed but I can't come up with the name -- something Like Market Day but my searches aren't bearing fruit.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

I was assuming this was a statement and thought somebody might've started hitting the eggnog a bit early.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 December 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

I love this title.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 25 December 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

i remember that book. it was so awesome.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ehis291/Jpegs/Arcimboldo_Rudolf_II.JPG

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.spamula.net/blog/i16/arcimboldo10.jpg

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:47 (sixteen years ago)

http://imagine-art.com/images_products/Giuseppe%20Arcimboldo%201527-93%20--Winter%2018x24%20c%20AB.jpg

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 11 January 2010 05:47 (sixteen years ago)

i posted the fish one, which is my favourite, and it didnt work...:(

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:44 (4 years ago) Bookmark

http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/Images/Arcimboldo.water.jpg

I'd never seen this before. Worth the wait. Bit spooky.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:40 (sixteen years ago)

And bringing it up-to-date...

http://www.framebox.de/creations/3d/salad/salad.jpg
http://www.framebox.de/creations/3d/salad/

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:42 (sixteen years ago)

I was immediately reminded of this:

http://www.artloversnewyork.com/zine/wp-content/photos/Akron_Family__1.jpg

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 January 2010 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

The children's book mentioned above by Laurel is On Market Street. My kids have enjoyed it over the years.

I love Arcimboldo. I was going on about him on the Clientele thread last week, since their latest album cover features an Arcimboldo.

― Euler, Monday, 11 January 2010 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

Heh, I tried to look at a sample image through Amazon, but I guess Amazon doesn't like to give previews for illustrations in children's books? When I click on the first few pages the text page shows up, but only a few scattered pixels for the first illustration page.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 January 2010 13:47 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Thanks to this thread I discovered The Librarian:

http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/thumbnail/36000/36016/mini_large/The-Librarian-The-Librarian-1566.jpg?ts=1459229076

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 06:07 (eight years ago)

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