Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
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Giovanni Antonio da Brescia was an Italian
painter and engraver of northern Italy, active at the end of the 15th and beginning of 16th centuries, during the Renaissance
period.
He and is said to have been a brother of Giovanni Maria da Brescia
. It is probable that he learned engraving in the school of Andrea Mantegna
. He engraved thirty-seven plates, among them:
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painter and engraver of northern Italy, active at the end of the 15th and beginning of 16th centuries, during the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
period.
He and is said to have been a brother of Giovanni Maria da Brescia
Giovanni Maria da Brescia
Fra Giovanni Maria da Brescia was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.He was born in Brescia in the latter part of the 15th century. He appears to have been related to Giovanni Antonio da Brescia...
. It is probable that he learned engraving in the school of Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality...
. He engraved thirty-seven plates, among them:
- Virgin suckling infant Jesus.
- Virgin adoring the Infant, St. Joseph sleeping.
- The Flagellation of ChristFlagellation of ChristThe Flagellation of Christ, sometimes known as Christ at the Column or the Scourging at the Pillar, is a scene from the Passion of Christ very frequently shown in Christian art, in cycles of the Passion or the larger subject of the Life of Christ. It is the fourth station of the modern alternate...
1503 and 1509. - Hercules and AntaeusAntaeusAntaeus in Greek and Berber mythology was a half-giant, the son of Poseidon and Gaia, whose wife was Tinjis. Antaeus had a daughter named Alceis or Barce.-Mythology:...
. - Hercules strangling the Lion 1507.
- A white horse.
- A naked Woman and Child, with a Satyr playing on a Victorious Augusta.
- A Holy Family, with S.S. Elisabeth and John after Albrecht DürerAlbrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...
, 1505. - A grotesque; below, a Satyr and a Woman.
- An Entombment after RaphaelRaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
. - Mary with Saints after MantegnaAndrea MantegnaAndrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality...
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