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Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The allegory of Fire  wikidata:Q27978848 reasonator:Q27978848
Artist
Giuseppe Arcimboldo  (1527–1593)  wikidata:Q7751
 
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Description Italian painter, architectural draftsperson, tapestry designer and designer
Date of birth/death 1527 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1593 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Milan Milan
Work location
Milan, Vienna, Prague
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q7751
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
German:
Feuer Edit this at Wikidata

Fire
label QS:Lfr,"Le feu"
label QS:Len,"Fire"
label QS:Lde,"das Feuer"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The allegory of Fire combines objects that are related to fire. The cheek is formed by a large firestone, the neck and chin are formed by a burning candle and an oil lamp, the nose and ear are contoured by firesteels; a blond moustache is formed by a crossed bundle of wood shavings for kindling, the eye is an extinguished candle stub, the forehead area is a wound-up fuse, the hair of the head forms a crown of blazing logs. The breast is composed of fire weapons: mortar and canon barrels together with the respective gunpowder shovel and a pistol barrel. Prominently positioned in the picture is the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, beneath which the imperial double-eagle can be seen: a clear reference to the Habsburg House and the beneficiary of the series, Emperor Maximilian II.
Date 1566
date QS:P571,+1566-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lime
Dimensions height: 66.5 cm (26.1 in); width: 51 cm (20 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,66.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,51U174728
institution QS:P195,Q95569
Accession number
GG_1585
Object history für Kaiser Maximilian gemalt (?); aus der Kunstkammer Rudolfs II; 1748 in der Wiener Schatzkammer; ab 1830 in der Gemäldegalerie
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Signature bottom right:

Joesphus Arcimboldus Mlnensis. F.
[Joesphus Arcimboldus Mlnensis. Fecit.] [made by Joesphus Arcimboldus Mlnensis]
Title and date verso:
IGNIS 1566
[fire 1566]
Notes
English: From the series series representing the Four Elements. Fire and Water are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Earth is now in a Viennese private collection. Air has been lost and only exists in copies.
References Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank.

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Source/Photographer Arcimboldo. 1526-1593. Ausstellungskatalog des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien 2008, p. 149. ISBN 978-3-85497-118-4, scanned by uploader
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