• These are four of the paintings Barthes discusses in his essay on the Renaissance artist Arcimboldo. These paintings were made in the mid-late 1500s as part of Arcimboldo’s Four Season series of allegorical portraits. They were painted separately but I found it easier to upload an image with all four right next to each other. The one on the upper left is Spring, the upper right is Summer, the lower left is Fall, and the bottom right is Winter. I found this via Google image, but the paintings are on display in the Louvre. (I saw them this there summer!)