Giuseppe Longhi

Giuseppe Longhi ( born October 13, 1766 Monza, † January 2, 1831 in Milan ) was an Italian engraver.

Life

He attended the school of the Florentine Vincenzo Vangelisti (1728-1798) to Milan, where he also devoted himself to painting. Later he went to Rome, where he was to Raphael Morghen ( Raffaello Sanzio Morghen; 1758-1833 ) joined, and was first known for his engraving of Bonaparte's portrait after the painting by Gros. In 1798 he became a professor at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.

Stitches

Its elegant drawing was as much the masterpieces of Italian classics just like his painterly feeling the paintings of Rembrandt.

His chief works are:

• The genius of music by Guido Reni,
• The Madonna del Dante after Parmigianino,
• Galatea on the shell after Albani,
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Procaccini,
• Sposalizio, a Holy Family, the vision of Ezekiel and the Madonna del Velo after Raphael (the latter in 1834 by Toschi completed )
• Magdalena by Correggio,
• The philosopher by Rembrandt ( for the Musée français )
• Enrico Dandolo by Matt Eini,
• The beheading of John the Baptist by Honthorst.

In his last time employed him also the engraving of the Last Judgement by Michelangelo.

Giuseppe Longhi wrote La Calcografia, a theory of Kupferstecherei ( Milan 1830). Under the title The Kupferstecherei appeared in 1837 in Hildburghausen a German translation by Carl Barth in two volumes.

Student

Among his students are the more prominent: Pietro Anderloni, Michele Bisi, Giovita Garavaglia, Jacob Felsing, Ferdinand Anton Krueger, Ludwig Gruner, Moritz Steinla.