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Fig. 2. Aricimboldo’s Four Seasons series of paintings with their dates of completion. (A) Spring 1563 from San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy, Madrid, Spain; (B) Summer 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (C) Autumn 1572 Denver Art Museum, Denver; United States, and (D) Winter , 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Fig. 2. Aricimboldo’s Four Seasons series of paintings with their dates of completion. (A) Spring 1563 from San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy, Madrid, Spain; (B) Summer 1563, Kunsthistorisches Mu seum, Vienna, Austria (C) Autumn 1572 Denver Art Museum, Denver; United States, and (D) Winter , 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

may be depicted among the 80 plant species identified by Sam Segal, botanist and art his torian, in the 1563 version of this painting (Ferino-Pagden, 2007). Because the flowers identified by Segal do not bloom synchro nously in spring, scholars have posited that

Arcimboldo made other drawings of these plants and flowers for later use in his paint ings (Ferino-Pagden, 2007). Documentation from Maximilian’s exquisite gardens in Vi enna and Prague in 1581 lists several plant species, including fruit trees, which Arcim-