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Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Four Seasons in One Head  wikidata:Q20176820 reasonator:Q20176820
Artist
Giuseppe Arcimboldo  (1527–1593)  wikidata:Q7751
 
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Description Italian painter, architectural draftsperson, tapestry designer and designer
Date of birth/death 1527 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1593 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Milan Edit this at Wikidata Milan Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Milan, Vienna, Prague
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q7751
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Four Seasons in One Head
title QS:P1476,en:"Four Seasons in One Head"
label QS:Len,"Four Seasons in One Head"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1590
date QS:P571,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 44.7 cm x 60.4 cm
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Accession number
2010.77.1
Object history

Created by the artist for his friend the writer Gregorio Comanini, who describes it in 1591.[1] Giovanni Pietro Cortoni, Verona, in 1656.[2] Rediscovered in 2006 in the collection of Ms. Stott, England, in whose family it had been since the early 20th century; sold 2006 to a private collection, the Netherlands; sold 2010 through (Pandora Old Masters, New York) to the National Gallery of Art.


[1] Gregorio Comanini, Il Figino, overo del fine della Pittura, 1591, translated by Anne Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino in The Figino, or On the Purpose of Painting: Art Theory in the late Renaissance, University of Toronto, 2001; pp. 27-28 contains the passage referring to the Four Seasons in One Head.

[2] Recorded in the inventory after Cortoni’s death in 1656, Inventario delle piture del quondam Ecc. mo. Sig. Dott. Gio. Pietro Cortoni di Verona, Archivio Assolino, Biblioteca Communale, Jesi, Italy, described in the Getty Provenance Index of archival documents no. I-3433.
Notes More info at museum site
References
Source/Photographer WwHACWGI-pgLUQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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