{"id":4229,"date":"2022-08-26T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/08\/26\/arcimboldos-dishes\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:46:27","slug":"arcimboldos-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2022\/08\/26\/arcimboldos-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcimboldo&#8217;s dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]One of the most eccentric artists of the sixteenth century was certainly the Italian painter <em>Giuseppe Arcimboldo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Arcimboldo was famous for his caricature portraits in which faces of men and women were depicted through a collage of objects that were somehow linked to the subject.<\/p>\n<p>To give an example, below you see &#8220;<em>The Cook<\/em>&#8220;, at the same time the &#8220;still life&#8221; of roasted meats poured on a plate and, if you turn the painting upside down, the &#8220;grotesque&#8221; portrait of a human face (due to the &#8220;<em>pareidolia<\/em>&#8221; , the instinctive tendency to find familiar shapes in blurred images).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: if you want to see &#8220;<em>The Cook<\/em>&#8220;, you have to go to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to become a cook yourself, I can provide you with the right equipment.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]One of the most eccentric artists of the sixteenth century was certainly the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Arcimboldo was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}