Raw food in Arcimboldo's paintings

Vegetables in a Bowl or The Gardener
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1591
Museo Civico (Cremona, Italy)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an imaginative italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish, animals and books. In 1562 he became the court portraitist to Maximilian II at the Habsburg court in Wien, and later, to his son Rudolf II, both of whom seem to have much liked Arcimboldo's extraordinary portraits. He was also the court decorator, costume designer, and general art expert.