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# A series of portraits of professionals, presented through the tools of their trade in the manner of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's portraits made of vegetables, fruit and sundry objects, created two centuries earlier
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/seriia-portretov-professionalov-predstavlennykh-orudiiami-ikh-proizvodstva-v-stile-portretov-dzhuzeppe-archimboldo-iz-ovoshchei-fruktov-i-vsiacheskikh-predmetov-sozdannykh-dvumia-vekami/
- Published: 2022-03-25T20:11:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:39:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Art, Observations

The series of engravings of 1800 is called “Hieroglyphs”, a reference to the general excitement that followed the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's troops in 1799\. True, the reference betrays a naive understanding of hieroglyphs as the mere reproduction of certain concepts and phenomena by means of objects

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