Luigi Calamatta

Luigi Calamatta ( born June 12, 1802 Civitavecchia, Italy, † March 8, 1869 in Milan ) was an Italian engraver, draftsman and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Life

Luigi Calamatta visited the Parisian engraver school since 1822. His engravings first gave the works of contemporary masters again, such as Jean- Auguste -Dominique Ingres ( vow of Louis XIII. ), Ary Scheffer ( Francesca da Rimini), besides several portraits, among which the sheet after the death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte is the best known.

Later he turned also to older Italian masters and published as the vision of Ezekiel, the Madonna della Sedia da Foligno and after Raphael, the Mona Lisa (1837 ) by Leonardo da Vinci, the Beatrice Cenci ( 1857) by Giulio Romano.

Calamatta 1837 was appointed professor of engraving school in Brussels and received the cross of the Legion of Honour. In 1851 he gave a collection of the famous men of Belgium in stitches out next to other sheets according to Belgian masters ( such as Jean Baptiste Madou and Alfred Stevens).

After the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy, he was appointed professor of engraving school at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Luigi Calamatta was a correct draftsman and understood the effect of the colored originals play admirably.

  • Italian
  • Copper engraver
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Knight )
  • Born in 1802
  • Died in 1869
  • Man
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