Spring
Explore Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s masterful Mannerist style—a portrait reimagined as Spring! Constructed from vibrant fruits and flowers, this iconic 1563 canvas embodies Renaissance allegory and invites you to bring a touch of timeless beauty into your home. See the full artwork page
- Public domain
Resolution & print size
The same free image in several sizes, each labelled with the largest print it still looks sharp at. Use it to avoid downloading a web thumbnail for a poster.
- 308 × 400 px Sharp to 10 cm at 100 dpi
- 617 × 800 px Sharp to 20 cm at 100 dpi
- 925 × 1200 px Sharp to 30 cm at 100 dpi
- 1234 × 1600 px Sharp to 41 cm at 100 dpi
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The free sizes above come straight from our catalogue image. For a poster, a book, an exhibition panel or any professional use, we prepare a much larger file by hand: our in-house imaging specialists retouch it manually — dust and cracks removed, colours matched to the original, fine detail restored — and deliver it by e-mail within 72 hours, with the licence that fits your use.
- Manual retouching by our imaging experts, not an automatic upscale
- Maximum resolution, ready to print at 300 dpi
- Colour accuracy checked against the original artwork
- Personal, presentation, website, publishing or marketing licence
- Delivered by e-mail within 72 hours, free lifetime re-delivery
Licence & credit
The rights status of this image plus a ready credit line you can paste under it. Use it when you need to know whether you may publish, and exactly what to write.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Spring (1563), Королівська академія витончених мистецтв Сан-Фернандо. Public domain.
- Commercial use, edits and reposting are all allowed.
- Credit is appreciated, not required.
- AI training and reference use: permitted.
Bring Impressionist light to your page: a free gift for art lovers
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Cite this artwork
Formatted references with the artist, date, collection and a permanent link. Use it for an essay or bibliography without retyping the details.
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe. Spring. 1563, Королівська академія витончених мистецтв Сан-Фернандо. https://topimpressionists.com/en/art/giuseppe-arcimboldo-spring-8YDVQP-en/
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1563). Spring [Painting]. Королівська академія витончених мистецтв Сан-Фернандо. https://topimpressionists.com/en/art/giuseppe-arcimboldo-spring-8YDVQP-en/
Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Spring. 1563. Королівська академія витончених мистецтв Сан-Фернандо. https://topimpressionists.com/en/art/giuseppe-arcimboldo-spring-8YDVQP-en/
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1563) Spring. Королівська академія витончених мистецтв Сан-Фернандо. Available at: https://topimpressionists.com/en/art/giuseppe-arcimboldo-spring-8YDVQP-en/
Classroom pack
Material for a lesson built around this artwork: the printable image, its Student Artwork Guide, and a QR code that takes a class straight to the artwork's information page.
Open the printable Student Artwork Guide
Print it on the handout or project it: scanning opens this artwork's information page.
Presentation slide
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Downloads as an image you can drop straight onto a slide.
Colour palette
The dominant colours measured from the painting, with their codes. Use it to build a brand, a room or a mood-board palette from this work.
- Main colour
- Espresso
- Palette
- Dark
- Hue
- Warm Sunset Tones
- Harmony
- Discordant Palette
- Contrast
- Bold
- Intensity
- Balanced
- Saturation
- Clear Color Presence
- Brightness
- deep_shadow
- Luminance
- Dark
- Variance
- Balanced Variation
Artwork metadata
The catalogued facts behind this image, and the permanent links that identify it. Use it to record the work in an app, a catalogue or a database.
- Title
- Spring
- Artist
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- Year
- 1563
- Medium
- Oil On Canvas
- Collection
- Королівська академія витончених мистецтв Сан-Фернандо
- Source image
- 1581 × 2050 px
- Permanent link
- /en/art/giuseppe-arcimboldo-spring-8YDVQP-en/
In numbers
A few figures about this work and its artist, from our catalogue and our visitors.
- 45% of the visits to Giuseppe Arcimboldo go to works whose vibe is “Mystical”, though they are only 12% of the catalogue: what visitors really come for
- Vertumnus (Vertumno) the most viewed work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo this year
- 30 years before the death of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Have it made for your wall
Three ways to own it, from a print to a painting.
Social crops
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Wallpapers
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Detail crops
Close-ups of the surface, each downloadable on its own. Use it to study the brushwork, or to check that the source file really is high resolution.
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- Printed on cotton canvas or Epson archival canvas paper
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