{"id":972,"date":"2011-01-11T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:57","slug":"arcimboldos-the-librarian-ca-1566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/01\/11\/arcimboldos-the-librarian-ca-1566\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcimboldo&#8217;s &#8220;The Librarian&#8221; (ca. 1566)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/multimedia\/photos\/?c=y&amp;articleID=111461589&amp;page=9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-973\" title=\"Arcimboldo-The-Librarian-9\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/arcimboldo-the-librarian-9.jpg?w=211\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/01\/arcimboldo-the-librarian-9.jpg 367w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/01\/arcimboldo-the-librarian-9-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve probably seen reproductions of Giuseppe Arcimboldo&#8217;s portraits of people composed of fruits and vegetables or other unusual materials. He painted this librarian made of books in about 1566. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/bibnotes.wordpress.com\/\">John Lancaster<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen reproductions of Giuseppe Arcimboldo&#8217;s portraits of people composed of fruits and vegetables or other unusual materials. He painted this librarian made of books in about 1566. Thanks, John Lancaster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-fG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}