biography
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Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
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also spelled Arcimboldi
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pronunciation:
[ah(r)chimbohldoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1530–93)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Milan, N Italy. He became a designer of stained-glass windows for Milan cathedral. He later moved to Prague, where he was court painter to the Habsburgs, executing the work for which he is best known - fantastic heads composed of fragmented landscape, animals, vegetables, flowers, and other non-human objects, brightly coloured and with a great attention to detail. |
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