Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

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Portrait of Cardinal Karl Borromeo , Archbishop of Milan, (posthumous?). Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Portrait of Lucio Foppa, c. 1590. Brera
Organ wing in the Milan Cathedral
Zeus and Io . Pavia, Pinacoteca Malaspina

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (born 1553 in Milan ; died October 11, 1608 there ) was an Italian painter of Lombard Mannerism .

Life

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino was born in Milan around 1550 as the son of an armorer . He received his training from Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo , whose theories were implemented in Figino's Mannerist style in the “Trattato dell'arte della Pittura”. In the seventies or eighties he studied ancient artists in Rome. Figino's paintings were primarily for ecclesiastical clients, so he painted an altarpiece of the “Madonna della serpe” for the “Chiesa di San Fedele” in Milan, today in the church “Sant'Antonio Abate”, which is in the Lombard tradition of Leonardo is standing. He painted the organ wings in Milan Cathedral (after 1590) together with Camillo Procaccini and Giuseppe Meda with a procession through the Red Sea and a resurrection of Christ .

For Rudolf II he painted "Zeus and Io". The portrait of Foppa was in the Giacomo Sannazzari collection and in 1802 went to the "Ospedale maggiore di Milano" and from there to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. There is also a still life of Figino , in anticipation of the flowering of this genre.

His person was mentioned by contemporaries such as Torquato Tasso , Giambattista Marino and Gherardo Borgogni.

The British consul in Venice, Joseph Smith , acquired a collection of drawings in the mid-18th century that may have been brought together by the Romei family of Ferrara . The volume with drawings, detailed studies and copies after engravings is now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle , the other with sonnets and verses, mainly in Figino's honor, in the manuscript department of the British Museum . A collection of 162 drawings, compiled at the beginning of the 19th century by the secretary of the Milan art academy Giuseppe Bossi , is now owned by the Venice Accademia .

cicerone

"Lomazzo and Figino belong to the real Mannerists, the former has value as an art writer, less because of his views than because of important notes", the instructions for enjoying Italian works of art by Jacob Burckhardt in the middle of the nineteenth century wrote nothing about Figino as a painter , including Georg Kaspar Nagler's artist lexicon was more cautious about Figino at the time, more about the influences of other painters and less about his works.

literature

  • Susanna Partsch : Figino, Giovan Ambrogio . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 39, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22779-5 , pp. 431-433.
  • Roberto Ciardi:  FIGINO, Giovanni Ambrogio. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 47:  Ferrero-Filonardi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.
  • Roberto Paolo Ciardi, Ambrogio Figino . Firenze, 1968
  • Annalisa Perissa Torrini, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. Disegni del Figino , Milano, 1987
  • Maria Farquhar, Biographical catalog of the principal Italian painters . Woodfall & Children, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; 1855 p. 61
  • Frances Vivian, The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. From Raffael to Canaletto Hirmer, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7774-5120-7 .
  • Entry “Figino, Ambrogio” in: Georg Kaspar Nagler New General Artist Lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers . Volume 4, published by EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835–1852 [1]

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Ambrogio Figino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth, here after AKL, is indicated differently: The Pinacoteca Brera states 1551/54: Luisa Arrigoni, Emanuela Daffra, Pietro C. Marani, The Brera Gallery: the official guide . Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e storici di Milano, Milan 1998 ISBN 8836514065
  2. ↑ see: it: Chiesa di San Fedele (Milano)
  3. ↑ Peaches
  4. ↑ whose praise is, however, relativized as "selfish" in Nagler's artist lexicon
  5. ↑ Gherardo Borgogni: La Fonte del Diporto. Dialogo del Sig. Gherardo . Venetia 1602 (at: ÖNB )
  6. ↑ Frances Vivian, The Collection of Consul Smith , pp. 166–169
  7. ^ Jacob Burckhardt, Der Cicerone: e. Instructions for enjoyment d. Works of art of Italy , reprint from 1855, p. 823
personal data
SURNAME Figino, Giovanni Ambrogio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1553
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1608
Place of death Milan