This exhibition brings together theworks by Arcimboldo housed in Spanish collections, including Flora (1589) and Flora meretrix (c. 1590). loaned from a private collection and Spring (1563), loaned by Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid). This core group of works is complemented by copies of various contemporary treatises on artistic and botanical iconography which reveal Arcimboldo’s expert scientific knowledge, as well as the earliest commentaries on his celebrated artistic inventions, including the one by the painter and writer Gian Paolo Lomazzo in his `Idea del tempio della pintura´ (1590).
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