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Description: A Woman from Padua going to the Market: Design for a Ballet Costume inscribed 'Una Contadina di Padova. andando al mercato' pen and brown and black ink, watercolor heightened with white (oxidized) and gold 5 x 4 in. (145 x 110mm.) NOTES In 1585 Arcimboldo organized a tournament to mark Emperor Rudolf II' investiture in the Order of the Golden Fleece. For it Arcimboldo designed 148 costumes contained in a volume given to Rudolf II. The drawings are are now at the Uffizi. Some are illustrated in F. Porzio, L'universo illusorio di Arcimboldi, Milan, 1979, pp. 90-1. Arcimboldo's fame today relies more in his metamorphic still lives painted in Prague for Rudolf II. But Arcimboldo was also active as a portraitist, and in Milan he designed tapestries and stained glass windows. In the Rudolfine court he specialized in temporary decorations for the Emperor's festivals. A series of thirteen drawings on Sericulture and the manufacture of silk is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, H. Macandrews, Italian Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983, no. 8 (1-13). All the drawings are annotated by Arcimboldo. The later drawings dated to about 1586, the year after the Uffizi drawings were executed, and the year before he returned to Milan.