Magistrate (Ulrich Zasius)", 1566. In Vienna, he finally cooked up his famous faces. They satisfied a taste for exoticism. This was the era of high humanist curiosity. Newly rediscovered ancient texts like Pliny’s natural history circulated among scholars and artists; in the show, watercolors of animals and fish by Arcimboldo, exacting models he adapted for parts of faces, show him to be firmly grounded in science and real observation.