Giorgio Ghisi

Giorgio Ghisi ( called Giorgio Mantua, * 1520 in Mantua, † December 15, 1582 ibid ) was an Italian engraver and Tausiator.

His work, about 70 mostly large-format engravings, is characterized by a very developed technique, which he used to Mannerist design.

The training Giorgio Ghisis suspected in environment Giulio Romano and his work for the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, which should have taught him the graphic techniques especially for Giovanni Battista Scultori. Soon after 1540 emerged Ghisis earliest (1543 first dated ) engravings. 1546-49 worked in Rome of stitches for templates dortiger painter (Francesco Salviati, Perino del Vaga and Michelangelo. 1550, he went to Antwerp, where, four important sheets were printed by Hieronymus Cock, whom he had met in Rome, the Roman Mannerism sustainable taught in Flemish art scene: ( the School of Athens by Raphael, 1550; Last Supper by Lambert Lombard, 1551, and the oral defense after Raphael, 1552, and the birth of Christ by Agnolo Bronzino, 1554 ) Conversely Ghisi is from the Dutch. inspired graphics, which is most evident in his landscape elements. too, he is himself a member of the Antwerp guild of St. Luke.

1555-1556 and 1558-1559 Ghisi is in Paris and Fontainebleau, where other Italian artists under the direction of Francesco Primatice working for the king. Under the influence of his iconography is enriched allegorical and more complex, eg in the allegory of life ( the so-called Dream of Raphael), 1562nd Between this year and 1564, he returned to Mantua, where he reproduced in 10 engraved plates the Last Judgment by Michelangelo. Emergence time and place of the sibyls and prophets, also by Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel, however, is controversial. In 1573 he must have been in Paris, and again in 1574-75 Rome ( Man of Sorrows and Marie representations ). After 1576, he remained at the court of the Gonzaga in Mantua, where he his last dated 1578 copper engraving published.