Caradosso

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Medal from 1506 depicting St. Peter's Basilica

Caradosso (actually Cristoforo Foppa , also Ambrogio Foppa ; * 1445 or 1452 in Mondonico, a district of Olgiate Molgora ; † 1527 ) was an Italian medalist and goldsmith who was in the service of Ludovico Sforza (1452-1508), Duke of Milan , was standing.

life and work

Caradosso was the son of Gian Maffeo Foppa. From 1480 he worked like his father for the Duke of Milan and became his personal goldsmith. In 1487 Caradosso visited Florence . In 1489 he visited Hungary and worked for Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490). From 1492 to 1497 he traveled through Italy and acquired jewels and other valuable objects for the Duke of Milan. In 1496 he visited Rome , Viterbo and Florence. In Florence he bought valuables from the Medici family, which were for sale after Piero di Lorenzo de 'Medici (1472–1503) was expelled .

The reverse of the medal above depicts Donato Bramante (1444–1514).

After Ludovico Sforza was expelled from Milan in 1499, Caradosso stayed in Lombardy for a few years . In 1501 he sold Ludovico Gonzaga (1458–1511), the Bishop of Mantua , some marble busts and statues. In 1503 he took part in a committee that planned a new door for the Milan Cathedral . In 1505, 1512 and 1522 he was in contact with the court in Mantua . Federico II Gonzaga (1500–1540), the Margrave of Mantua at the time, reported about it in letters to Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529).

In 1523 Caradosso lived in Rome. There he worked over the years for Popes Julius II (1443-1513), Leo X. (1475-1521), Hadrian VI. (1459-1523) and Clement VII. (1478-1534). The Popes preferred minted medals to cast medals because minted medals could be made faster and cost less.

Aside from the medal representing Bramante and St. Peter's Basilica, several other medals are attributed to Caradosso. Various goldsmith work in some churches in Italy is said to have been created by him. He also made a tiara for Pope Julius II. The tiara was made by Pius VI. (1717–1799) destroyed and reworked. There is still a drawing from 1722 in the British Museum , on which the Pope is shown with his complete regalia and also this tiara. Medals from Caradosso are exhibited in the British Museum , the National Gallery of Art , the Staatliche Münzsammlung München , the Victoria and Albert Museum , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Collection of Castello Sforzesco .

Caradosso was friends with Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) and Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571). Cellini called him in his book Trattato dell'Oreficeria (1565) the "most excellent goldsmith of that time". There he also reports on how the stage name Caradosso is said to have come about . One day a Spaniard came to Caradosso's workshop. He was upset because a medal he had ordered was not finished and said to the medalist hai cara d'osso , which means: "You have a face like a bum". The artist liked the wording so much that from then on he could only be called that.

literature

  • Eugène Piot: Le cabinet de l'amateur . Librairie Firmin Didot, Paris 1863, p. 26–40 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Caradosso, Christofano. Volume I. Spink & Son, London 1904, pp. 345 ff .
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Caradosso (Ambrogio Foppa). Volume VII. Spink & Son, London 1923, pp. 151 f .
  3. ↑ Le cabinet de l'amateur , pp. 26 + 28.
  4. ↑ a b Caradosso (1452-1526). In: invaluable.com. Retrieved February 29, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Ambrogio Foppa . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , 1913 ( Wikisource )
  6. ↑ Le cabinet de l'amateur , p. 30.
  7. ↑ Le cabinet de l'amateur , pp. 26 + 29.
  8. ↑ a b Max Bernhart: Medals and Plaques . In: Library for art and antique collectors . tape 1 . Schmidt, Berlin 1920, p. 29-32 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Drawing. In: britishmuseum.org. British Museum, accessed February 29, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Le cabinet de l'amateur , p. 26 f.
  11. ↑ Benvenuto Cellini: Treatises on the goldsmith's art and sculpture . Ed .: Erhard Brepohl. Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-24705-7 , p. 54 f . ( limited preview in the Google book search - Italian: Trattato dell'Oreficeria, Trattato della Scultura . Translated by Ruth Fröhlich, Max Fröhlich).
personal data
SURNAME Caradosso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cristoforo Foppa, Ambrogio Foppa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian goldsmith and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1445 or 1452
PLACE OF BIRTH Olgiate Molgora
DATE OF DEATH 1527