Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta (* circa 1555 in Florence; † August 5, 1630 in Rome) was an Italian painter, draftsman and etcher.

Life

Tempesta was a student of originating from Bruges Jan van der Straet alias Stradanus, the key personnel of Giorgio Vasari. The team of Stradanus probably Tempesta worked on the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi parts of the corridor. He created most of his works in Rome, where he moved in about 1580 and, apart from short trips, remained until his death. With its attentive to aesthetic clarity and narrative compositions consequence, he is considered the protagonist of the change in style from Mannerism to early Baroque in Rome. In the pontificate of Pope Gregory XIII. he painted the figures of the jobs created by Mathijs Bril scenes from the translation of the relics of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Loggia of the Vatican Palace Gregoriana, one of the earliest episodes painted Romveduten. Also in the painting of the casino Gambara the Villa Lante in Bagnaia he seems to have been involved. At least under Pope Sixtus V to Tempesta turned to printmaking - without, however, ever give up painting.

First, he created drawings as templates for other engraver, etcher and wood cutter, including Francesco Villamena, Matthaeus Greuter and Paul Maupin, the latest from 1589 he etched himself with his 1700 etchings, in which he portrayed both Biblical and historical and mythological themes he was one of the most influential and most copied artist of his time and the entire 17th century. Even Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens, Velázquez and Poussin used Tempestas prints as inspiration for their own works. Particularly well known he was by his Romplan from 1593 and numerous battle and hunting scenes and depictions of animals, including an inspired work of his teacher Jan van der Straet horses cycle. Influential Tempesta was also an illustrator for publications Typographia Medicean in Rome and through its innovative at that time practice, numerous etchings, including the 150 scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, not in Rome but in Antwerp print and can publish: The Metamorphoses Pieter de Jode in 1606 laid the Elder. In addition Tempesta erased two series after drawings by Otto van Veen, who were sent to him from Antwerp to Rome: the "War of the Batavians against the Romans " ( Bataveraufstand ) and the "history of Infantes of Lara ." Tempesta sent the engraved plates to Antwerp, where they were published in 1612.

In the period after 1600 Tempesta produced numerous paintings on stone (marble, alabaster, lapis lazuli, etc. ) that are not only immediately input found in the collections of the Roman nobility, but were also popular internationally - Works corresponding two find themselves in an inventory of Emperor Rudolf II frescoes painted Tempesta after the turn of the century, among others, in the Roman church of San Pancrazio - side by side with Guido Reni and Paul Bril - the Casino Borghese on the Quirinal. As one of the latest canvas art Tempestas applies the large-scale resurrection for Santa Felicita in Florence, which is still located at the site. To Tempestas sponsors and clients included, among others, Giulio Roscio, Antonio Gallonio, Benedetto Giustiniani, Vincenzo Giustiniani the Younger, Scipione Caffarelli Borghese and Taddeo Barberini. According to André Félibien Among his students was the Lorraine Claude Deruet; possibly also met Jacques Callot with him as an eraser.

Aftereffect

Tempestas inventions were important sources of inspiration for the artists of the 17th and 18th centuries. Stefano della Bella Matthäus Merian and numerous works based on compositions by Tempesta. From observations to the reception behavior of Rembrandt against the etchings Tempestas, in particular the dependence of the " Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis " ( now in the National Museum in Stockholm ) of a composition in the "War of the Batavians against the Romans ," Aby Warburg developed his on 29 May 1926 in Hamburg held lecture "Italian antiquity in the age of Rembrandt ". Giorgio de Chirico was a great admirer of the etchings Tempestas, especially the battle scenes, and used these as templates for several of his paintings.