Cristofano dell'Altissimo

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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.

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

  1. ↑ Cristofano dell'Altissimo: the genius in copies | Italian Ways. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
personal data
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