Antonio Tempesta
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Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino (1555 – 5 August 1630), was an Italian painter and
engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp.[1]
Much of his work depicts major battles and historical figures.
Life
He was born and trained in
Joannes Stradanus. He was part of the large team of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
.
His favourite subjects were battles, cavalcades, and processions. He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Habsburg Netherlands, which may have led to his facility with landscape painting.
Among his followers was Marzio di Colantonio.
Commissions
Tempesta and the Flemish painter
Tivoli and the Palazzina Gamara at Villa Lante
, Bagnaia. He painted a series of turbulent and crowded battle scenes for the Medici. He also completed a series of engravings on outdoor courtly hunting scenes.
Tempesta painted frescoes for the Palazzos
Santo Stefano Rotondo
in Rome.
Tempesta is now best known as a
printmaker in etching and engraving. He also left numerous etchings, among them: Plates from the Old Testament; twenty-four plates from the Life of St. Anthony; a set of 150 prints from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; 13 plates on The Labours of Hercules and four plates on respectively The ages of man; The entry of Alexander into Babylon; Diana and Actaon, and The crucifixion
(1612).
In 1612 he engraved a series of plates under the title "Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum" after designs of the
Batavia
' in battle dress with respective scenic backgrounds, symbolizing the two nations. Fifteen other plates bear Tempesta's monogram. The plates depict heroic events, sieges, and battle scenes. This historicist work was very popular in its time.
Tempesta also drew many designs for tapestries.
Gallery
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Schlachtenbild -
16th c. painting by Tempesta -
Condannato a morte salvato dall'Annunziata -
Egyptians drowning in the Red Sea -
Scena di battaglia -
Miracolo del soldato caduto e salvato -
Depiction of Nero -
Roman emperor -
Cerialis in 1612 -
Gerusalemme Liberata 3 -
Gerusalemme Liberata 8 -
Gerusalemme Liberata 13 -
Gerusalemme Liberata 17 -
Gerusalemme Liberata 18 -
Gerusalemme Liberata 20 -
Tereus Philomela Procne -
Die Kreuzigung des hl. Petrus
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Notes
References
- Text from Karel van Mander's Schilderboeck, p. 195: Daer is nae mijnen tijdt, oft noch teghenwoordich te Room, een Florentijn, Discipel van Ioan van der straet, oft Stradanus, geheeten Antonio Tempesta, die seer ghepresen wort, hebbende veel dinghen gheteyckent en ghehetst, als Iachten, Batailgen der Amasones: oock Ao. 1593. in platte forme, en in't groote, de Stadt van Room.
- Brief bio of Tempesta from Web Gallery of Art
- Grove Art Dictionary
- Eckhard Leuschner, Antonio Tempesta. Ein Bahnbrecher des roemischen Barock und seine europaeische Wirkung, Petersberg 2005 (in German).
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 556.
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