Giuseppe Longhi

Giuseppe Longhi, engraving by Natale Schiavoni

Giuseppe Longhi (born October 13, 1766 in Monza , † January 2, 1831 in Milan ) was an Italian engraver .

Bust of Giuseppe Longhi (Palazzo di Brera, Milan)

Life

Napoleon Bonaparte after a painting by Antoine-Jean Gros

He attended the school of the Florentine Vincenzo Vangelisti (1728–1798) in Milan, where he also devoted himself to painting. He later went to Rome , where he joined Raffaello Morghen (1758–1833), and was first known for his engraving of Bonaparte's portrait after the painting by Gros . In 1798 he became a professor at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. In 1823 Longhi was accepted as a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Stitches

His elegant drawing did as much justice to the masterpieces of Italian classics as his painterly feeling did justice to the paintings of Rembrandt .

Its main leaves are:

• the genius of music according to Guido Reni ,
• the Madonna del Dante to Parmigianino ,
• Galatea on the shell to Albani ,
• the rest on the flight into Egypt to Procaccini ,
• Sposalizio, a holy family, the vision of Ezekiel and the Madonna del Velo after Raphael (the latter completed by Toschi in 1834 ),
• Magdalena to Correggio ,
• the philosopher after Rembrandt (for the Musée français ),
• Enrico Dandolo after Matteini ,
• the beheading of John the Baptist after Honthorst .

In his last days he was also concerned with the engraving of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo .

Books

Giuseppe Longhi wrote La Calcografia, a theory of copper engraving (Milan 1830). A German translation by Carl Barth in two volumes was published in Hildburghausen in 1837 under the title Die Kupferstecherei .

student

Among his students are the more outstanding: Pietro Anderloni , Michele Bisi , Giovita Garavaglia , Jakob Felsing , Ferdinand Anton Krüger , Ludwig Gruner , Moritz Steinla .

literature

• Defendente Sacchi , Biografia di Giuseppe Longhi (Milan 1831)
• Francesco Longhena , Biografiche di Giuseppe Longhi (Milan 1831)
• Giuseppe Beretta , Della vita, delle opere et opinioni del Cavaliere Giuseppe Longhi (Milan 1837)
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Longhi, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 7–19 ( digitized version ).
• Brignoli:  Longhi Giuseppe. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 305 f. (Direct links on p. 305 , p. 306 ).

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Longhi  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by Giuseppe Longhi