Arcimboldo

What's in a name,
So difficult to pronounce
And so foreign to my ear?
An artist of unambiguous talent!

At once detailed, humorous,
Richly colored from a palette
Alive with possibilities,
Arcimboldo floods his canvas with life.

100 years after haloed spirits
Were the centerpiece of art
He painted still life’s
Showing man as part of nature...literally.

If the Renaissance ignited
The human imagination,
Then art was it's most visible expression
And Archimboldo's paintings a grand confirmation.