Cristofano dell'Altissimo
Cristofano dell'Altissimo (* around 1525 in Florence ; † September 21, 1605 there ) was an Italian painter and copyist .
He was trained as a portrait painter by Pontormo and Bronzino . In 1552 Cosimo I de 'Medici sent him to Como to copy the paintings from the portrait collection of Paolo Giovio . He made about 280 paintings.
Works
The serial portraits are all around 60 x 45 cm in size and show spiritual and secular rulers, generals, philosophers, writers and a few artists.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Bayezid I (v. 1357-1403)
Giovanni di Bicci de 'Medici (1360-1429)
Alexander VI. (1431–1503)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498–1526)
literature
- Silvia Meloni Trkulja: Cristofano di Papi dell'Altissimo. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 31: Cristaldi – Dalla Nave. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1985.
- Aleci, Linda Kinger: Images of Identity: Italian Portrait Collections of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. "The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance" Eds. Nicholas Mann and Luke Syson . London: British Museum Press, 1998. 67-79.
- Campbell, Lorne: Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Fossi, Gloria: Uffizi Gallery: Art, History, Collections . Firenze: Firenze Musei, 2001.
- Giovio, Paolo: An Italian Portrait Gallery . Translated by Florence Alden Gragg. Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1935.
- : History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past . Yale University Press. 1995.
- Müntz, Eugène: Le Musée de portraits de Paul Jove. Contributions to the iconographie du moyen age et de la renaissance. Mémoires de l'Institut nationale de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . Vol. 36, no. 2, 1900. 249-343.
- Zimmermann, TC Price: Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cristofano dell'Altissimo: the genius in copies | Italian Ways. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cristofano Dell'Altissimo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cristofano di Papi dell'Altissimo. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and copyist |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1530 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1605 |
Place of death | Florence |