Alessandro Maganza

Alessandro Maganza (* 1556 in Vicenza, † 1632) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist of Vicenza.

Life

Alessandro Maganza is the most successful artists of the Maganza family, which resulted in Vicenza three generations a workshop in the 16th century.

His craft Alessandro learned from his father, Giovanni Battista Maganza il Vecchio ( called Magagnò ( 1509-1586 ) ), the poet and painter and was made ​​famous by the frescoes in the Villa Repeta, the first buildings of Palladio. His father's style was seen in the succession by Veronese, Tintoretto and Bassano.

A close friend gave it to Giovanni Antonio Fasolo, (1530-1572) as a painter in Vicenza and pupil of Paolo Veronese, and so it is likely that Alessandro Maganza who also worked with him and went into teaching.

The death of Fasolo prompted Maganza with 16 years (1572 ) to Venice to go and he was there with the works of Jacopo Palma in contact. After his marriage in 1576 he left Venice and returned to Vicenza, which he left to his death in 1632 never again.

His four sons Giambattista Maganza il Giovane (1577-1617), Marc Antonio Maganza (1578-1630), Girolamo Maganza (1586-1630) and Vincenzo Maganza (15? -1660 ) Worked well in the family workshop with. Three but died young of the plague, so that Maganza she survived. Through the family workshops operation, it is difficult to identify the work of individual members in certain phases.

Alessandro's first recorded handwritten work, Madonna and Child with the four Evangelists ( 1580), he painted for the monastery, which was built around the Basilica and Sanctuary of Monte Berico in Vicenza. Maganza also painted the frescoes inside the dome of Palladio's famous Villa Rotonda near Vicenza with colored allegories that reflect the influence of Paolo Veronese. In the same villa can also be found by him tempera paintings in the south and west rooms.

As part of the Counter-Reformation Maganza left the influence of Veronese and remembered the darker style of Jacopo Palma il Giovane its stylistic successor he was. Maganzas late work is overshadowed by the early death of his sons and excel through the use of dark, dramatic colors.

Famous Works

Famous students

Swell

  • Grove Dictionary of Art
  • Sydney J. Freedberg: Pelican History of Art ( ed. ): Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd, 1993, p p. 565
  • Pallucchini Rodolfo, La pittura Veneziana del Seicento, Alfieri, Milano, 1981

Pictures of Alessandro Maganza

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