The Arcimboldo bag features the iconic work of the Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Spring, 1573.
Integral painting is printed on the bag; it represents a character from the Noble cast of that time in Arcimboldo's notorious representation of portrait heads composed fruits, vegetables, plants and other objects. The colorful portrait contrast with the dark background and the red inner liner add a touch of sophistication to this easy going accessory. Fold it like a K-Way and keep it in your purse, or use it instead of your daily tote bag to showcase your enthusiasm for Renaissance art with style. Our Giuseppe Arcimboldobag is water resistant so that it will keep you stuff protected from wet. Give new meanings to this everyday bag and use it in place of store plastic bags, go trendy with this must-have bag for all Renaissance art lovers. It comes with a wallet also featuring the same optic illusion design.
About Giuseppe Arcimboldo illusion art
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Arcimboldo was an Italian painter, mostly known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.
Initially, like his father, the Renaissance painter worked as a painter on Milan Cathedral. This changed in 1562, when the Emperor of Hapsburg, Ferdinand I, summoned him to the royal court in Prague.
For nearly all of the rest of his life, he remained in the service of this court, not only as a painter, but also as an architect, a designer of bizarre settings and costumes, and an organizer of major festivities. His work was much appreciated both for its sense of craftsmanship as well as its artistic value, and its eccentric, if sometimes comical aspects, may have made a welcome change to the day-to-day harsh political reality.
Arcimboldo owes his present-day fame to his artistic discovery of the composite head. He painted his first version of The Four Seasons, portraits composed of flowers, fruit, twigs and leaves on the canvas, arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.
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