Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century Italian painter who worked at various royal courts in Europe, including Hapsburgs. He is best known for painting a series of very interesting and fascinating (or perhaps grotesque) portraits in which all of their subjects are actually "assembled" by objects or animals.
The portrait pictured above is titled "The Fire," and examplifies Arcimboldo's great wit and imagination. One can actually see all of objects individually, and then see their "assemblage," which depicts a head of a man. However, in the painting, the relative scale between these objects are ignored.
Can his portraits also be regarded as "still lifes"? :)
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