Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia (active between 1490 and 1525 or later) was an Italian engraver and perhaps also a nielder and gem cutter .

Little is known about Giovanni Antonio da Brescia. He is said to have been a Carmelite and, in addition to the art of engraving, also made niels and gems. However, only his copperplate engravings are clearly documented, in which he initially followed Andrea Mantegna's style , whose strict manner probably suited him very well. He himself does not seem to have been a very talented draftsman, because his later works, in which he tried to break away from Mantegna's influence (he now oriented himself to Baldassare Peruzzi and Raffael , among others ), are both in the design of the composition and in her pictorial effect was not very successful. Its leaves are mostly with JO. ON. B [X]. signed. A possible identification with the medalist Antonio da Brescia is controversial and cannot be supported according to current knowledge.

His most famous works include:

• Christ in Limbo , around 1490
• Caesar's triumphal procession , 1498
• The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Boy John , around 1500
• Bacchanal with wine barrel , around 1500
• Fountain with a statue of Neptune , around 1500
• Bacchanal with Silene , around 1500–1504
• The risen Christ between the hll. Andreas and Longinus , around 1500–1504
• Silenus with a group of children , around 1500–1505
• Four dancing muses , around 1500–1505
• Allegory on the fall of ignorant humanity (Virtus Combusta) and an allegory on the salvation of humanity (Virtus Deserta) , around 1500–1505
• Christ before Pilate , around 1500–1505
• Laocoon and His Sons , 1506
• Hercules and Antaeus , after 1506
• Hercules and the Nemean Lion , after 1506
• Saint Peter , around 1507
• The Flagellation of Christ , around 1509
• The Entombment of Christ, around 1509
• Saint Jerome in his study, around 1510
• Two sibyls and an angel , around 1520–1525
• Finding Joseph's Bowl, around 1521–1525
• The birth of christ
• Lady Justice
• Portrait of Andrea Mantegna (?)

A niello ascribed to him with the Lamentation of Christ and the Annunciation in the lunette is in the Museo dell'Età Cristiana in Brescia .

literature

• Paul Kristeller : Giovanni Antonio da Brescia . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 104-106 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).