Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia ( active 1490-1525 or later ) was an Italian engraver and perhaps Nielleur and gem cutter.

About Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, little is known. He was said to be a Carmelite monk and have made ​​also Niellen and gems next to the art of copper piercing. However, security is only his engravings, in which he holds initially stylistically close to Andrea Mantegna, whose severe type it very well came to meet. He himself seems to have been a very talented illustrator, for his late works, in which he sought to break away from Mantegna's influence ( he is now based, inter alia, to Baldassare Peruzzi and Raphael), both in the design of the composition as well as in their image effect little success. Its leaves are usually with JO. AN. B [ X]. signed. A possible identification with the medalist Antonio da Brescia is controversial and can not be based on the current findings.

Among his most famous works include:

  • Christ in Limbo. 1490
  • The triumphal procession of Caesar. 1498
  • The Holy Family with St Elizabeth and John the Baptist. 1500
  • Bacchanal with a wine barrel. 1500
  • Fountain with statue of Neptune. 1500
  • Bacchanal with Silenus. to 1500 - 1504
  • The Risen Christ between denHeiligen Andrew and Longinus. to 1500 - 1504
  • Silenus with a group of children. to 1500 - 1505
  • Four Dancing Muses. to 1500 - 1505
  • Allegory to the case of ignorant humanity ( Virtus Combusta ) and an allegory of the salvation of mankind ( Virtus Deserta ). to 1500 - 1505
  • Christ before Pilate. to 1500 - 1505
  • Laocoon and his sons. 1506
  • Hercules and Antaeus. after 1506
  • Hercules and the Nemean lion. after 1506
  • St. Peter. 1507
  • The Flagellation of Christ. 1509
  • The Entombment of Christ. 1509
  • St. Jerome in his study. 1510
  • Two Sibyls and an angel. to 1520 - 1525
  • The discovery of the shell of Joseph. to 1521 - 1525
  • The birth of Christ
  • Justitia.
  • Picture of Andrea Mantegna (?)

An attributed to him " niello with the Lamentation of Christ and the proclamation in the bezel " is located in the Museo dell'Età Cristiana, Brescia.

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