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''The Cook'' is a c. 1570 oil-on-panel painting by the Italian painter Nationalmuseum's website
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (; 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait Human head, heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish ...
, now in the Nationalmuseum
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, in Stockholm
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still life
A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...
of roasted meats that, when the painting is turned upside-down, form a human face via pareidolia
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. The painter also produced '' The Fruit Basket'' and '' The Gardener'', using a similar effect.
The attribution to Arcimboldo is disputed.
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