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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Milanese painter

Born 1527 · died 11 July 1593, aged 65 or 66
Also known as Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Josephus Arcimboldus, Giuseppe Archimboldo

Who was alive at the same time as Giuseppe Arcimboldo?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  3. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  4. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  5. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  6. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  7. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  8. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  9. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  10. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  12. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  13. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527 – 1593
  14. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  15. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  16. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  17. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  18. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  20. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  21. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  22. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  23. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  24. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679

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When Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born, Michelangelo was 51 or 52, Martin Luther was 43 or 44, Nicolaus Copernicus was 53 or 54, Albrecht Dürer was 55 or 56 and Jacques Cartier was 35 or 36.

When Giuseppe Arcimboldo died, William Shakespeare was 29, Galileo Galilei was 29, Elizabeth I was 59, Francis Bacon was 32 and Johannes Kepler was 21.

Born during Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 8 years before Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born, René Descartes was born about 3 years after Giuseppe Arcimboldo died, Rembrandt was born about 13 years after Giuseppe Arcimboldo died and Ferdinand Magellan died about 6 years before Giuseppe Arcimboldo was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

179 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1561.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Babur 1483 – 1530
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  41. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  44. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  47. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  48. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  49. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  50. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  51. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  54. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  55. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  56. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  57. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  60. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  61. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  62. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  63. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  64. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  65. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  66. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  67. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  68. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  69. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  70. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  71. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  72. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  73. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  74. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  75. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  76. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  77. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  78. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  79. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  80. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  81. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  82. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  83. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  84. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  85. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  86. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  87. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  88. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  89. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  90. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  91. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  92. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  93. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  94. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  95. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  96. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  97. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  98. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  99. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  100. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  101. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  102. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  103. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  104. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  105. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  106. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  107. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  108. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  109. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  110. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  111. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  112. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  113. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  114. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  115. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  116. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  117. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  118. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  119. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  120. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  121. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  122. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  123. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  124. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  125. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  126. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  127. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  128. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  129. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  130. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  131. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  132. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  133. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  134. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  135. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  136. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  137. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  138. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  139. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  140. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  141. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  142. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  143. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  144. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  145. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  146. James V 1512 – 1542
  147. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  148. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  149. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  150. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542