Giuseppe_Arcimboldo_Fire_Kunsthistorisches_Museum.jpg
Summary
Giuseppe Arcimboldo : The allegory of Fire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q7751
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | allegory | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Date |
1566
date QS:P571,+1566-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium | lime | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 66.5 cm (26.1 in); width: 51 cm (20 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,66.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,51U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q95569
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Accession number |
GG_1585
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Object history | für Kaiser Maximilian gemalt (?); aus der Kunstkammer Rudolfs II ; 1748 in der Wiener Schatzkammer; ab 1830 in der Gemäldegalerie | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Signature bottom right:
Joesphus Arcimboldus Mlnensis. F.
[Joesphus Arcimboldus Mlnensis. Fecit.] [made by Joesphus Arcimboldus Mlnensis]
Title and date verso :
IGNIS 1566
[fire 1566]
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Notes |
English:
From the 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.
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References |
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank
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Web Gallery of Art |
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Source/Photographer | Own work , Yelkrokoyade , 2012-07-13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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