Abstract
This research project proposes an analysis of the Quattro Elementi set (1566) made by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593), an Italian painter of the 16th century, born in the Duchy of Milan. Arcimboldo worked in Vienna, from 1562, as a court artist for the Habsburgs and there he developed much of his best-known work. During the period of the painter's artistic activity, Europe developed a gro…