What a librarian looks like

Sure, when you picture a librarian, you usually think of the bun, the glasses, yadda yadda. But that's not what Giuseppe Arcimboldo saw when he thought of librarians. He imagined them being made out of, what else, books. This sixteenth century Italian painter, though employed as a royal court portraitist for his day job, painted highly amusing portraits of people made out of such things as roots, vegetables, and flowers. Arcimboldo, though his work was always well regarded, received renewed attention three centuries after he died when surrealists like Salvador Dali discovered his work.