The Lawyer, 1566, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527-1593, Italian painting, Austrian, Milanese, oil on canvas. Arcimboldo’s painting depicts a human figure made up a pile of books and documents, draped in a fur-trimmed gown. The face consists of poultry and fish, with fish-bone moustache, fish tail beard, and decapitated frog nose. Painted while Arcimboldo was the Hapsburg Court painter in Vienna, it may be a defamatory likeness of Ulric Zasius, German lawyer, reformer, humanist, and vice-chancellor of Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II. (BSLOC_2023_4_74)
