Giovanni Beltrami (gem cutter)
Giovanni Beltrami (* 1777 in Cremona ; † April 1854 there ) was an Italian gem cutter .
Life
He was the son of a jeweler and nephew of the painter Antonio Beltrami . He received his first artistic lessons from the painter Giacomo Guerrini and was self-taught in the field of stone cutting. At the time of French rule in Italy, he found in Eugène de Beauharnais , the viceroy of Italy and stepson of Napoleon , a patron and patron. On his behalf he made, among other things, a chain of 16 cameos depicting the story of the psyche . Beltrami also received several commissions from Napoleon, who from 1805 was Emperor of the French and King of Italy in personal union . Among other things, there was also a carnelian medallion with the portrait of Napoleon and his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais , which is still considered lost today.
In 1815 he worked for a while at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph , for whom he made several works, including a portrait of the king, which is now in the Museum of the Vienna Hofburg (treasury). Around 1825 he created a portrait of her husband, Emperor Ferdinand I, on behalf of Karoline Auguste von Bayern - the daughter of Maximilian I Joseph.
He frequently cut copies of famous masterpieces, such as an 18 millimeter stone with about 20 figures representing the tent of Darius after Charles Lebrun and a 27 millimeter topaz with the Last Supper after Leonardo da Vinci .
Others
The famous Italian mathematician Eugenio Beltrami was a grandson of Giovanni Beltrami.
literature
- Antonio Meneghelli: Dello insigne glittografo Giovanni Beltrami . Padua 1839 ( digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Beltrami, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printing company L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, pp. 250–252 ( digitized version ).
- Beltrami, Giovanni . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 278 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Beltrami, Giovanni. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 67.
- Evelin Altnöder: Beltrami, Giovanni . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 552.
- Gabriella Tassinari: An intaglio by Giovanni Beltrami and some considerations on the connection between planquettes and gems in the late 18th – early 19th century . In: Classicism to neo-classicism. Essays dedicated to Gertrud Seidmann . Oxford 1999, pp. 192-204.
- Gabriella Tassinari: Glyptic portraits of Eugène de Beauharnais: the intaglios by Giovanni Beltrami and the cameo by Antonio Berini . In: The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 60/61 (2002/03) pp. 43–64 ( digitized version ).
- Hadrien J. Rambach: The Antinous Braschi on Engraved Gems: An Intaglio by Giovanni Beltrami . In: Lanx 15, 2013, pp. 111-122 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Giovanni Beltrami on Antiqua
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/mathematics-biographies/eugenio-beltrami
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beltrami, Giovanni |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian gem cutter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1777 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cremona |
DATE OF DEATH | April 1854 |
Place of death | Cremona |