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Curlycarol

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Aug 18, 2001, 7:34:43 PM8/18/01

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Beautiful Nenufar...lovely lovely still life and what a beautiful show you made.
Carol
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)

One of the most bizarre and distinctive painters in the whole of art history, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) owes his reputation to the series of composite portraits of heads made up of a variety of objects, both natural and man-made. Most of these paintings were created at the court of Rudolf II, who hired Arcimboldo as his court painter, placing him at the centre of Rudolf's eccentric menagerie of artists, scientists and charlatans.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born in Milan in 1527 into a highly distinguished family, which boasted archbishops (including his grandfather), jurists and artists (including his father Biagio). Little is known about his early life, but his connections with Milanese nobility undoubtedly helped him secure work designing frescoes and windows for the cathedral. In 1562 he travelled across the Alps to Vienna to become the portraitist and copyist to the Hapsburg court, at the invitation of Emperor Maximilian II (his talent having been noted by Maximilian's father Ferdinand I, who employed him as a painter of conventional portraits). Under Maximilian's patronage he produced his first series of the Seasons and the Elements, which were formally presented to the Emperor on New Year's Day, 1569.

In 1570 Arcimboldo was sent to Prague, to design an elaborate pageant for Maximilian that blended classical and Czech mythology, and he was to perform similar duties for Maximilian's son Rudolf II, when he ascended the Hapsburg throne in 1575. Arcimboldo designed the festivities for Rudolf's coronation and other state events, while spending his spare time devising hydraulic machines and new forms of musical notation using colours.

In 1591 he produced his masterpiece, Vertumnus, an allegorical portrait of his master Rudolf II as the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and life, with Rudolf's face made up of fruit and flowers, symbolising the perfect balance between nature and harmony that his reign allegedly represented. Arcimboldo died in 1593.

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Aug 18, 2001, 8:01:30 PM8/18/01

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Thank you Carol :) I'm glad you liked it

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Richard Eagle

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Aug 18, 2001, 8:26:06 PM8/18/01

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Very nice post, Nenufar, and very interesting history about the artist. I
really like the picture flipped with the SWiSH and the music too.

Richard

Sally Prestgard

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Aug 18, 2001, 8:37:48 PM8/18/01

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Interesting information on the artist, Nenufar.

Sally

joni ralls

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Aug 18, 2001, 11:11:27 PM8/18/01

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Amazing how a picture can look so different when turned around... beautiful
post, music and interesting information about the artist... thanks for
sharing this, Nenufar!! :)

--joni

Jilly

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Aug 19, 2001, 12:30:13 AM8/19/01

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beautiful, a favourite artist...another script I don't recognize...did you
write this one? it's very nifty

EXB

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Aug 19, 2001, 2:36:20 AM8/19/01

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Beautiful Music!! Nice history--Good wet All over!!
Thx for taking the time for this one!!

Michaela

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Aug 19, 2001, 6:35:42 AM8/19/01

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wonderful!!!!!!! i love Arcimboldo's composite heads. i've seen most of them
here in Vienna at the Rudolf II exhibition. i could look at them for ever.
M

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li

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Aug 19, 2001, 11:04:59 AM8/19/01

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wonderful presentation Nenufar!
li

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Nenufar

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:35:51 PM8/19/01

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Thank you Richard :) Actually it's done by Flash, but it could be done by
Swish, perfecty. It uses actions available in both programs

Nenufar :)

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:37:30 PM8/19/01

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Thank you Sally :)

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:38:37 PM8/19/01

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Thank you Joni :) I'm glad you liked it

Nenufar

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:42:32 PM8/19/01

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Thank you so much . I'm glad you liked it

It's done by Flash :) the script is embedded . It can be done by Swish as
well. If you want more information about how to do it, please ask :)

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:43:51 PM8/19/01

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Thank you very much :) I'm glad you liked it

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:45:48 PM8/19/01

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Thank you very much :) I'm so glad you liked it .

Nenufar

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:46:17 PM8/19/01

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Thank you Li, glad you liked it :)

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> wonderful presentation Nenufar!
> li

Birgitte Nin@

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Aug 19, 2001, 1:13:49 PM8/19/01

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looks good :-)

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Aug 19, 2001, 6:44:38 PM8/19/01

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Thank you Birgitte :)

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