1526 - 1593
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; 5 April 1526 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books. These works form a distinct category from his other productions. He was a conventional court painter of portraits for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague; also producing religious subjects and, among other things, a series of coloured drawings of exotic animals in the imperial menagerie. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Arcimboldo has received more than 1,234,964 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 61 in 2019). Giuseppe Arcimboldo is the 44th most popular painter (down from 39th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Italy (down from 76th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Painter.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo is most famous for his portraits made of fruits, vegetables, and other objects.
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Among painters, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 44 out of 1,421. Before him are Joan Miró, Tintoretto, René Magritte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Masaccio, and Caspar David Friedrich. After him are J. M. W. Turner, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Klee, and Georges Braque.
1893 - 1983
HPI: 77.81
Rank: 38
1518 - 1594
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 39
1898 - 1967
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 40
1841 - 1919
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 41
1401 - 1428
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 42
1774 - 1840
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 43
1526 - 1593
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 44
1775 - 1851
HPI: 76.71
Rank: 45
1864 - 1901
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 46
1830 - 1903
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 47
1594 - 1665
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 48
1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 49
1882 - 1963
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 50
Among people born in 1526, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 1. After him are Akechi Mitsuhide, Catherine Jagiellon, Elizabeth of Austria, Rafael Bombelli, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Benedict the Moor, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, and Bâkî. Among people deceased in 1593, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 1. After him are Christopher Marlowe, Emperor Ōgimachi, Li Shizhen, Juan de Herrera, Jacques Amyot, Symon Budny, Maciej Stryjkowski, Xu Wei, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, and Abd al-Samad.
1526 - 1593
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 1
1526 - 1582
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 2
1526 - 1583
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 3
1526 - 1545
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 4
1526 - 1573
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 5
1526 - 1586
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 6
1526 - 1586
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 7
1526 - 1589
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 8
1526 - 1580
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 9
1526 - 1569
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 10
1526 - 1588
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 11
1526 - 1600
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 12
1526 - 1593
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 1
1564 - 1593
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 2
1517 - 1593
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 3
1517 - 1593
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 4
1530 - 1593
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 5
1513 - 1593
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 6
1530 - 1593
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 7
1547 - 1593
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 8
1521 - 1593
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 9
1554 - 1593
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 10
1500 - 1593
HPI: 40.51
Rank: 11
Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 107 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Leo XIII (1810), Masaccio (1401), Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Antoninus Pius (86), Antonio Gramsci (1891), and Pope Innocent III (1160). After him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Luigi Galvani (1737), Lucrezia Borgia (1480), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938), and Cato the Elder (-243).
1810 - 1903
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 101
1401 - 1428
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 102
1776 - 1856
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 103
86 - 161
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 104
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 105
1160 - 1216
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 106
1526 - 1593
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 107
1736 - 1813
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 108
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 109
1480 - 1519
HPI: 76.62
Rank: 110
1936 - 2023
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 111
1938 - Present
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 112
243 BC - 149 BC
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 113
Among painters born in Italy, Giuseppe Arcimboldo ranks 11. Before him are Titian (1488), Donatello (1386), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Giotto (1267), Tintoretto (1518), and Masaccio (1401). After him are Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Paolo Veronese (1528), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Giorgione (1478), Giovanni Bellini (1430), and Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448).
1488 - 1576
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 5
1386 - 1466
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 6
1884 - 1920
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 7
1267 - 1337
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 8
1518 - 1594
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 9
1401 - 1428
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 10
1526 - 1593
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 11
1435 - 1488
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 12
1528 - 1588
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 13
1593 - 1653
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 14
1478 - 1510
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 15
1430 - 1516
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 16
1448 - 1494
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 17