Giuseppe Arcimboldo, court painter to Maximilian II, …
Years: 1566 - 1566
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, court painter to Maximilian II, executes a portrait in 1566 of a jurist, thought to be Geneva’s late theocrat Jean Calvin, in the grotesque style for which he has become famous: portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.
