Antonio da Cremona

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ANTONIVS CREMONENSIS: Holy Family , 1547, woodcut, 17.6 × 12.2 cm (British Museum)

When Antonio da Cremona (demonstrated 1547-1550), an Italian woodcutter called, has his work signed with ANTONIVS Cremonensis.

At times Antonio da Cremona is identified with Antonio Campi da Cremona (around 1523–1587). Several woodcuts are known with the signature ANTONIVS CREMONENSIS. The British Museum attributes these works to Campi, while the Albertina Graphic Collection , Vienna sees the author as an independent artist. The oldest of the known works shows the Holy Family with the young Jesus and with Mary and Joseph . A kneeling saint on the right compositionally closes the motif. This sheet is signed in upper left with ANTONIVS CREMONENSIS and dated 1547. Like the other signed works, it is cut using the Chiaroscuro technique. The artist took motifs from the works of Giulio Campi and Parmigianino and translated them into this graphic technique.

literature

  • Anton Reichel: The Clair Obscur cuts of the XVI., XVII. and XVIII. Century , Zurich, Leipzig, Vienna, 1926, plates 35, 58
  • Luigi Servolini: La xilografia a chiaroscuro ital. Nei sec.XVI, XVII e XVIII , Lecco 1932, p. 78
  • Graph. Albertina Collection: Parmigianino and his circle , exhibition cat., Vienna 1963, No. 187–192.
  • Sven-Wielandt Staps: Antonio da Cremona (1547) . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Vol. 6, 1992, p. 675

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ British Museum, woodcuts by Campi
personal data
SURNAME Antonio da Cremona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES il cremonese; Antonio da Cremona (1547)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1547
DATE OF DEATH after 1550