{"id":13630,"date":"2013-04-08T02:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13630"},"modified":"2013-04-08T04:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:44:54","slug":"vertumnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/08\/vertumnus\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertumnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/collection\/skokloster-castle\/artwork\/rudolf-ii-of-habsburg-as-vertumnus-giuseppe-arcimboldo\/428581\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arcimboldo1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/arcimboldo1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus (detail).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the spring here starting to show its reluctant face it&#8217;s an apt moment to find a handful of\u00a0Giuseppe Arcimboldo&#8217;s paintings at the Google Art Project. Vertumnus is the perennial favourite, Arcimboldo&#8217;s portrait of his patron, Rudolf II of Hapsburg, as the Roman god of the seasons. I&#8217;ve always thought this portrait flattered Rudolf more than those which faithfully depict his <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Joseph_Heintz_d._\u00c4._002.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">homely features<\/a>. We&#8217;re told the Emperor was very pleased with his fruity likeness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/collection\/skokloster-castle\/artwork\/rudolf-ii-of-habsburg-as-vertumnus-giuseppe-arcimboldo\/428581\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arcimboldo2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/arcimboldo2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus (1590).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/collection\/kunsthistorisches-museum-vienna-museum-of-fine-arts\/artwork\/summer-giuseppe-arcimboldo\/677772\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arcimboldo3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/arcimboldo3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summer (1563).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/collection\/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc\/artwork\/four-seasons-in-one-head-giuseppe-arcimboldo\/27466350\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arcimboldo4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/arcimboldo4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/23\/arcimboldos-four-elements\/\">Arcimboldo\u2019s Four Elements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus (detail). With the spring here starting to show its reluctant face it&#8217;s an apt moment to find a handful of\u00a0Giuseppe Arcimboldo&#8217;s paintings at the Google Art Project. Vertumnus is the perennial favourite, Arcimboldo&#8217;s portrait of his patron, Rudolf II of Hapsburg, as the Roman god of the seasons. I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/08\/vertumnus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vertumnus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[1508,2096],"class_list":["post-13630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","tag-arcimboldo","tag-rudolf-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}