I just stumbled across this painting of The Librarian by 16th century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. You are probably familiar with Arcimboldo's work - his portraits are of people represent ideas (summer, fire) made up of items representing those ideas. It's all very meta, 500 years before anyone knew what that meant. It is also hard to explain, and you propbably have no idea what I'm talking about so go check out this gallery of many (all?) of Arcimboldo's variations on this theme for further explanation.
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