File:Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Four Seasons in One Head - Google Art Project.jpg
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Summary
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Four Seasons in One Head
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| Artist |
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| Title |
Four Seasons in One Head |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
allegory  |
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| Date | circa 1590 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on panel oil on panel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 44.7 cm x 60.4 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
2010.77.1 |
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| Object history |
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, Il Figino, overo del fine della Pittura, 1591, translated by Anne Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino in The Figino, or On the Purpose of Painting: Art Theory in the late Renaissance, University of Toronto, 2001; pp. 27-28 contains the passage referring to the Four Seasons in One Head. [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. |
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| Notes | More info at museum site | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | WwHACWGI-pgLUQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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