Cesare Vecellio

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Cesare Vecellio: Portrait of a Family with an Oriental Carpet (around 1560)
St. Mark's Square , steel engraving after Cesare Vecellio (19th century)

Cesare Vecellio (* around 1521 in Pieve di Cadore , † March 2, 1601 in Venice ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Cesare Vecellio was a distant relative of the painter Tiziano Vecellio and a student of his brother Francesco. In 1548 he accompanied Titian to Augsburg and from then on worked for him in his workshop in Venice until his death in 1576. Around 1577 Vecellio painted the wooden coffered ceiling of the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Lentiai . Other works ascribed to him are in Belluno in the cathedral and in the Palazzo Piloni, in Pieve di Cadore and other places in the province of Belluno , in Tarzo and Borgo Valsugana , as well as an image of the Trinity in the Brera in Milan . In Venice, in the San Moisè district, he had his workshop and printing shop for his woodcut work.

Vecellio has an extensive sample book for lace making written and in his lifetime twice Lay- costume book about ancient and modern clothing styles from different parts of the world, whose more than 500 stitches native of Nuremberg Christoforo Chrieger anfertigte after Vecellios drawings in Venice. Vecellio's stitches were reprinted several times.

From the book collector Odorico Piloni from Belluno, he received orders for frontispiece - and Buchschnitt paintings .

Fonts

  • Antique and modern clothing from different parts of the world

  • Roman lictor

  • Greek merchant

  • Greek nobleman

  • In Georgia men and women wear sheepskin coats.

  • Greek woman from Pera (Constantinople)

  • Greek from Thessaloniki

literature

Web links

Commons : Cesare Vecellio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Kristeller : Chrieger, Christoforo . 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. 533 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Giovanni Grazioli: Biblioteca Piloni , at Biblioteca civica Belluno
  3. ↑ With the back of the book to the wall FAZ, April 14, 2012
  4. ^ Costumes Anciens et Modernes. Precedes D'Un Essai sur la Gravure sur Bois by Maurice Ambroise Firmin Didot. Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto il Mondo. , Reprint Paris 1860
personal data
SURNAME Vecellio, Cesare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1521
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieve di Cadore
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1601
Place of death Venice