Keywords: Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Four Seasons in One Head - Google Art Project.jpg LargeImage ~ 1590 44 7 cm x 60 4 cm Giuseppe Arcimboldo - The Four Seasons in one Head - WGA00820 jpg Italy Milan 1526 Italy Milan 1593 Giuseppe male 27292811 Arcimboldo Italian 1526 - 1593 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/four-seasons-in-one-head-giuseppe-arcimboldo/27466350/ 142008 Giuseppe Arcimboldo painter /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/ National Gallery of Art Washington DC 507112 http //www nga gov/ 8/13/2012 2 06 04 PM /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/four-seasons-in-one-head-giuseppe-arcimboldo/27466350/ 1590 Italian figure fantasy oil on panel 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 <i>Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura</i> 1591 translated by Anne Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino in <i>The Figino or On the Purpose of Painting Art Theory in the late Renaissance</i> University of Toronto 2001; pp 27-28 contains the passage referring to the <i>Four Seasons in One Head</i> 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 60 4 27466350 False 1590 c 1590 overall 8/20/2012 7 35 19 PM 2010 77 1 http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f object 142008 National Gallery of Art Washington DC Paul Mellon Fund Painting 1590 1600 w44 x h60 cm c 1590 False 0 724609375 Object four-seasons-in-one-head-giuseppe-arcimboldo Four Seasons in One Head f 44 7 oil on panel 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 <i>Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura</i> 1591 translated by Anne Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino in <i>The Figino or On the Purpose of Painting Art Theory in the late Renaissance</i> University of Toronto 2001; pp 27-28 contains the passage referring to the <i>Four Seasons in One Head</i> 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 Italian figure fantasy special url_id WwHACWGI-pgLUQ PD-old-100-1923 1593 Google Art Project works by Giuseppe Arcimboldo Anthropomorphic pareidolias by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1590s paintings in the United States Fruit or vegetables composing people Paintings of allegories of all seasons 16th-century oil on panel paintings in the United States Facing left in art Paintings from Italy in the National Gallery of Art 1590s paintings from Italy |