Antonio Tempesta
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Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) was an Italian painter born and trained in Florence and painting in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by Contra-Maniera or counter-Mannerism. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia del Disegno in 1576, and was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He is now best known as a printmaker in etching and engraving.
He was part of the large set of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio.
He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Netherlands, which may have led to his facility with landscape painting. He and Mattheus Brill were commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII to paint wide panoramas of the Procession to Transfer of the Relics of St Gregory of Nazianzus (1572) for the loggias on the third floor of the Vatican Palace. He completed frescoes in the Palazzina Gambara at the Villa Lante in Bagnaia (1578-09). From 1579-1583, Tempesta participated in the decoration of the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, notably of this villa's Scala Regia. He is also known to have collaborated on frescoes in the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. He painted series of turbulent and crowded battle scenes for the Medici. He also completed a series of engravings on outdoor courtly hunting scenes. He illustrated many books, including editions of Ovid. He also painted frescoes for the Palazzos Colonna and Doria Pamphilj.
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- Web Gallery of Art
- Grove Art Dictionary
