Agostino Ciampelli

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The funeral ceremony for Michelangelo in San Lorenzo, ceiling painting by Agostino Ciampelli in the Casa Buonarroti , Florence, 1617
Madonna del Rosario by Agostino Ciampelli
Annunciation by Agostino Ciampelli

Agostino Ciampelli (* 1566 in Florence , † 1630 in Rome ) was an Italian Baroque painter and president of the Accademia di San Luca .

Live and act

Ciampelli was trained by the painter Santi di Tito . As his assistant in 1588 he worked on the decorations for the entry of Christine of Lorraine .

Ciampelli worked in Rome from 1614 at the latest. He was friends with Gian Lorenzo Bernini and married his sister Agnese. In 1623 he was appointed President ( Princeps ) of the Accademia di San Luca. His clients and mentors included Popes Clemens VIII and Urban VIII and Alessandro Ottaviano de 'Medici, who later became Pope Leo XI.

Towards the end of his professional activity, Agostino Ciampelli was head of the construction works of St. Peter's Basilica . Hand drawings by him are in the Uffizi and the Louvre .

The information on the life data is different in the specialist literature. Different years of birth: 1565, 1577; Different year of death 1642.

Works

  • Ceiling frescoes of the Casa Buonarroti
  • The Destruction of Idols ( La distruzione degli idoli ) with the Apostle Bartholomew , painting for the Monastery of San Bartolomeo in Borgo San Sepolcro , today in the Museo civico , Sansepolcro
  • Frescoes in the courtyards of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura
  • Passion cycle in the Church of Santa Prassede
  • Stories from the Apocalypse and other paintings in the Church of San Giovanni in Fonte near the Lateran ( Battistero lateranense ).
  • Martyrdom of St. Andrew and frescoes on the ceiling of the sacristy in the Church of Il Gesù
  • decorative cycle in the villa of Cardinal Ottavio Acquaviva d'Aragona in Frascati, now Villa Grazioli
  • Frescoes in the Church of Santa Bibiana by order of Pope Urban VIII.
  • Altar painting in oil with Simon , Judas Thaddäus and the magicians for St. Peter's Basilica, today in the Museo Petriano in Rome
  • Frescoes in the gallery of the Palazzo Santacroce-Pasolini, Piazza Benedetto Cairoli in Rome
  • Painting Christ on the Mount of Olives for the Church of Sant'Egidio in Siena

literature

Web links

Commons : Agostino Ciampelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma: ASR, TNC, uff. 15, 1623, pt. I, vol. 95, fols. 321r – v, 326r (accessed on May 28, 2015) ( Memento from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino: Ciampelli, Agostino. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 25: Chinzer – Cirni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1981 (Italian).
  3. ^ Felix Becker: Ciampelli, Agostino . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 560 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Agostino Ciampelli - La distruzione degli idoli (accessed on May 28, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Ciampelli, Agostino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1566
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1630
Place of death Rome