Giacomo Piccini

Giacomo Piccini , also Pecini , Pizzini and Latinized Picinus , first name also Gianjacopo (* around 1617 in Venice ; † after 1669 there ) was an Italian graphic artist, engraver and etcher.

Live and act

Piccini was part of an Italian family of artists. His brother Guglielmo, with whom he is often confused because of the same initials, was also an engraver. He taught his daughter Isabella Piccini (1644-1734) continued the tradition, even after she went to the convent in Santa Croce as a nun in 1666 . In addition to Isabella, he had three sons, Francesco (Spitier in Padova), Girolamo (painter in Padova) and Galiazzo Piccini. According to Rodolfo Gallo, Piccini died in 1660. In a document dated November 20, 1663 it can be seen that he had already died at this point and that his 19-year-old daughter Isabella suffered from this loss and the Doge of Venice for help he searched:

“Tra l'angustie nelle quali la morte del Genitore, lasciò me Isabella figlia del qm Giacomo Piccini, […]”

"Because of the hardship into which the death of my parents left me, Isabella, daughter of qm Giacomo Piccini, [...]"

The year of death is uncertain, according to Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers , that Zani wrote that he was still active in 1669, but only works up to 1655 are known as works. This source also says Isabella was the daughter of Guglielmo Piccini and therefore his niece.

“Piccini, Guglielmo, was the brother of Giacomo Piccini, […]. He had a daughter, Isabella Piccini, who was a nun, […] ”

“Piccini, Guglielmo, was the brother of Giacomo Piccini, […]. He had a daughter, Isabella Piccini, who was a nun [...] "

Piccini made portrait copperplate engravings from his own drawings, but mainly transferred templates from Italian painters into copperplate engravings and etchings. Drawings by him can be found in the Museo Correr in Venice. One of his works is a portrait of Santorio Santorio . Some copper engravings are printed in the work Le glorie de gli incogniti from 1647.

For the anatomical works of Cecilio Folli , he made very precise images for the time, such as the internal organs of the ear for Follis Nova auris internae delineatio from 1645.

literature

Piccini, Giacomo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 581 .

Web links

Commons : Giacomo Piccini - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Catalog of a collection of engravings, etchings and lithographs by women: exhibited at the Grolier Club, April 12 to 27, 1901 . De Vinne press, New York 1901, pp. 82 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Rodolfo Gallo: L'incisione nel '700 a Venezia ea Bassano . In: Ateneo veneto . tape 128 , no. 5 , 6, 7 (May-July). Venice 1941, p. 153–214 , here p. 154 (Italian, Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With family tree, here 1660 is given as the year of death).
↑ Piccini, Giacomo and Piccini, Guglielmo . In: Michael Bryan (Ed.): Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers . tape 4 : N-R . Macmillan, G. Bell and Sons, London / New York 1904, p. 113 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Santorio Santorio by Giacomo Piccini . In: Ars Medica: A Collection of Medical Prints Presented to the Philadelphia Museum of Art . Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, p. 11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Girolamo Brusoni, Gian Francesco Loredano, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Giacomo Pecini, Francesco Valvasenese: Le glorie de gli Incogniti o vero gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de 'signori Incogniti di Venetia . 1647 ( archive.org - partially signed with J. Pecinus, Iacobus Pecini, Pecini, G. Pecini or IP).

personal data
SURNAME	Piccini, Giacomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piccini, Gianjapogo; Pecini, Giacomo; Picinus, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Venetian engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	after 1669
Place of death	Venice

[1] Catalog of a collection of engravings, etchings and lithographs by women: exhibited at the Grolier Club, April 12 to 27, 1901 . De Vinne press, New York 1901, pp. 82 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Rodolfo Gallo: L'incisione nel '700 a Venezia ea Bassano . In: Ateneo veneto . tape 128 , no. 5 , 6, 7 (May-July). Venice 1941, p. 153–214 , here p. 154 (Italian, Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With family tree, here 1660 is given as the year of death).

[3] Piccini, Giacomo and Piccini, Guglielmo . In: Michael Bryan (Ed.): Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers . tape 4 : N-R . Macmillan, G. Bell and Sons, London / New York 1904, p. 113 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] Santorio Santorio by Giacomo Piccini . In: Ars Medica: A Collection of Medical Prints Presented to the Philadelphia Museum of Art . Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, p. 11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[5] Girolamo Brusoni, Gian Francesco Loredano, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Giacomo Pecini, Francesco Valvasenese: Le glorie de gli Incogniti o vero gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de 'signori Incogniti di Venetia . 1647 ( archive.org - partially signed with J. Pecinus, Iacobus Pecini, Pecini, G. Pecini or IP).