Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta (Florence, 1555 - Rome, 1630) is a painter and a Italian engraver of the school florentine of the Baroque, author of an important work.

Biography

It is formed in the culture of the Maniérisme a late, with taste naturalist and even calligraphic, acquired at the time of the frequentation of Giovanni Stradano, with which it collaborates in the decoration of Palazzo Vecchio of Florence.

Left in Rome in 1573, he works for the pope Gregoire XIII by painting with fresco some charts of the Room of the Geographical maps of the the Vatican, among which famous Carte of Rome (1593). In the capital pontificiale, he works for many noble families and important cardinals, with thanks to a style of decoration in vogue.

Turned over to Florence for a short stay, he collaborates with Alessandro Allori and Giovanni Bizzelli for decorations of the ceilings of the galleries of the Offices, east coast, with much of frescos with Grotesque.

Set out again in Rome, it is dedicated more and more to the engraving, with which it acquires a great fame in all Europe by the copy of works of other painters.

Good draftsman, endowed with a particularly scenographic vein, other artists printed and spread his drawn work.

Works

Its works are present at the church San Giovanni of Fiorentini in Rome, with the Villa Farnèse of Caprarola, with Tivoli,…

Its drawings are in the sections dedicated to the drawing of the Musée of Louvre, of the Uffizi, the museum of Berlin and the National Gallery of Edinburgh.

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