Giuseppe Arcimboldo, court painter in Prague and Milan, is renowned for his portraits composed of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and animals. These allegorical figures, both bizarre and ingenious, embodied the spirit of Mannerism: erudition, artifice, and a taste for the marvelous that fused nature with intellect. In his garden-faces, man merged with the vegetal cosmos, celebrating both fertility and the fragility of existence. In this version, Pepe takes the place of Arcimboldo’s subject: the face assembled from leaves, roots, berries, and fruits becomes an ironic mask, where the organic structure retains its illusionistic charm while subverting its gravitas. The work plays at the threshold between nature and culture, parody and wonder, inserting a digital icon into the encyclopedic fantasy of the Renaissance. The piece recalls Arcimboldo’s oil technique: glossy surfaces, meticulous compositions, warm tones against a dark background, from which the vegetal tangle emerges. Pepe is reconstructed from apples, pears, leaves, and flowers, turning Mannerist hybridization into a pop-meme pastiche.