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Some think he was called Vertumnus, from turning the lake Curtus into the Tiber.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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We recognize the wonderfully painted peaches and pear suggesting the fleshy cheeks and nose of "Vertumnus" (c. 1590), note his peapod eyelids and cardoon moustache, then fleetingly manage to see this paean to abundance as a portrait of the robust Rudolph II, before losing ourselves in cabbage leaves, olives, a blackberry eye, and the glistening cherries of his protruding Hapsburg lip.
The Proto-Surrealist Karen Wilkin 2010
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All readers please seach the net for Arcimboldo Art. His painting "Vertumnus" shows what appears to be a warty cucurbit on the forhead.
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All readers please seach the net for Arcimboldo Art. His painting "Vertumnus" shows what appears to be a warty cucurbit on the forhead.
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All readers please seach the net for Arcimboldo Art. His painting "Vertumnus" shows what appears to be a warty cucurbit on the forhead.
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All readers please seach the net for Arcimboldo Art. His painting "Vertumnus" shows what appears to be a warty cucurbit on the forhead.
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His personified Spring, his Water, his Vertumnus only really pay off as vehicles -- as excuses -- for great still lifes.
Blake Gopnik on the Arcimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art 2010
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The Habsburg emperor Rudolf II gets depicted as Vertumnus, Roman god of growth and abundance -- by having his face and torso constructed out of corn, grains, fruit and squash.
Blake Gopnik on the Arcimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art 2010
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Flora, Vertumnus and Pomona, should be banished from the gardens of
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Dancing is very agreeable; it is useful to the body; it exhilarates the mind; it does no harm to any one; but do not imagine that Pomona and Vertumnus are much pleased at your having jumped in honor of them, and that they may punish you for having failed to jump.
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