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| Reference: | S30503 |
| Author | Antonio TEMPESTA |
| Year: | 1596 |
| Measures: | 367 x 515 mm |
| Reference: | S30503 |
| Author | Antonio TEMPESTA |
| Year: | 1596 |
| Measures: | 367 x 515 mm |
Description
Etching and engraving, 1596. From the set of Twelve Caesars which was made after Tempesta in 1596, published by Tommaso Moneta in Rome.
A fine impression, printed on laid paper with "double encircled fleur-de-lys " watermark, with margins, trace of horizontal central fold, otherwise in very good conditions.
The plates are signed and dated: "Antonius temp figurauit 1596". So could be possible that Moneta published the set on behalf of Antonio Tempesta.
Complete sets are held in Hamburg, Dresden and the Farnesina, Rome.
The Raphael Schiaminossi set of Twelve Caesars (Bartsch XVII.235.98-110), which was published by Vaccari under papal privilege in Rome in 1606, is in fact a copy of the Tempesta published ten years earlier in 1596 by Tommaso Moneta. No acknowledgement of Tempesta's authorship is made in the 1606 copy.
A very rare work.
Ex collection Bernfeld, Akim Gregorowitsch (Lugt 127).
Antonio TEMPESTA (Firenze 1555 – Roma 1630)
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Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Enrolled at the Accademia del Disegno in Florence on 8 December 1576, he was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of Joannes Stradanus, with whom he worked under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. He then went to Rome, where he again had links with artists from the Netherlands. He and Matthijs Bril were commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII to paint the Transfer of the Relics of St Gregory of Nazianzus (1572) and other religious scenes in the loggias on the third floor of the Vatican Palace. In Tempesta’s frescoes in the Palazzina Gambara at the Villa Lante in Bagnaia (1578–9), the hunting and fishing scenes, sweeping landscapes and urban backdrops again reveal the influence of Netherlandish art. From 1579 to 1583 Tempesta participated in the decoration of the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, notably of the Scala Regia. He is also known to have collaborated on the frescoes in the Villa d’Este at Tivoli.
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Antonio TEMPESTA (Firenze 1555 – Roma 1630)
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Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Enrolled at the Accademia del Disegno in Florence on 8 December 1576, he was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of Joannes Stradanus, with whom he worked under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. He then went to Rome, where he again had links with artists from the Netherlands. He and Matthijs Bril were commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII to paint the Transfer of the Relics of St Gregory of Nazianzus (1572) and other religious scenes in the loggias on the third floor of the Vatican Palace. In Tempesta’s frescoes in the Palazzina Gambara at the Villa Lante in Bagnaia (1578–9), the hunting and fishing scenes, sweeping landscapes and urban backdrops again reveal the influence of Netherlandish art. From 1579 to 1583 Tempesta participated in the decoration of the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, notably of the Scala Regia. He is also known to have collaborated on the frescoes in the Villa d’Este at Tivoli.
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