Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Vertumnus (a 16th century Carmen Miranda)

By Jack Brummet, Painting Ed.

In this painting, The Holy Roman Emperor is painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons.

According to the Wikipedia, “Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c.1526–1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books”

Carmen Miranda has nothing on the Emperor. . .

Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Vertumnus

Carmen Miranda

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