Enea Vico

Enea Vico (born January 29, 1523 in Parma , Italy , † August 18, 1567 in Ferrara , Italy) was an Italian engraver and author .

Life

Vico came from a noble family. His mother died at birth and his father when he was two years old. He began his professional career in Parma and Rome . In the years 1541 to 1542 he made 24 sheets with grotesques for the account of Tommaso Barlachi . He developed his style after Marcantonio Raimondi and was the most famous engraver in Italy during his lifetime.

A series of engravings from antique vases by Vico is known from 1543, which the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig now owns. He then went to Florence , where he made engravings for the Grand Duke of Tuscany , Cosimo I de 'Medici, after a painting by Michelangelo . In 1550 he stayed in Augsburg and in the following year and 1557 published two volumes with engravings on the women of Augsburg, the Donne Auguste . In the years 1555 to 1557 he stabbed a number of ancient medals in Parma for his book on the subject published in 1558. After a stay in Venice he went to the court of Ferrara to Alfonso II d'Este . There he made about 500 more engravings in the Ducal Palace of Ferrara until his death.

Vico was a member of the Venetian Accademia dei Pellegrini .

Publications

• with Antonio Zantani: Le immagini degli imperatori , 1548.
• Donne Auguste , 1550/1551.
• Immagini delle Donne Auguste , 1557.
• Discorsi di M. Enea Vico Parmigiano sopra le medaglie degli antichi , 1558.
• Tavola Isiaca , 1559.
• Commentari alle antiche medaglie degli imperatori romani , 1560.

literature

• Directory of the gems Vico from 1650: Ex Gemmis et Cameis antiquorum aliquot monumenta from Aeneae Vico Parmensi by Gio Giacomo Rossi alla Pace all'Insegna di Parigi (1660?).
• Giulio Bodon: Enea Vico fra memoria e miraggio della classicità . L'erma di Bretschneider, 1997, ISBN 88-70629651 .
• Stefan Luboschik: Of coppers, Caesars and points. An introduction to Enea Vico. In: Das Altertum 61/2016, pp. 181–197.

Web links

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