Luca Penni

Luca Penni (* around 1500 in Florence , † after September 21, 1556 in Paris ) was an Italian painter and draftsman. He was also known as Romanus .

Life

Luca Penni was a brother of Bartolommeo Penni and Giovanni Francesco Penni . Perhaps like this he was trained by Raphael . In Genoa and Lucca he worked with Perino del Vaga . He later moved to France, apparently in connection with an invitation from King Francis I to help furnish the Fontainebleau Palace . There he worked with Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio ; In addition to paintings, he also created patterns for tapestries. His drawings of the rescued Diana were used as a template for a wall decoration that was produced for Heinrich II , the successor of Franz I. Pennis' name is mentioned in royal accounts from 1537 to 1550.

Franz I. Penni died in 1547, probably a little later. From 1550 he lived in Paris. From 1553 he concentrated on drawing templates for engravers such as Étienne Delaune . He often used the works of Raphael as models and translated texts by classical writers such as Homer , Virgil and, above all, Ovid into the visual arts.

Based on mannerism in the art of his homeland, the Italian Penni became a pioneer of French classicism .

According to Thieme / Becker , he made his will on September 21, 1556 and died a little later. Numerous engravings were created based on Pennis' drawings, including Louis XIV. Among the buyers and collectors of his works.

Christ in Limbus

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From October 2012 to January 2013, an exhibition of Pennis' works was on view in the Louvre . In this exhibition, an oil painting by Pennis, which the Louvre had just acquired at the time, was presented, showing Augustus and the Sibyl of Tibur : Augustus asks the seer on the summit of the Capitol whether a more important person than himself will ever be born. Then Sibylle points out a heavenly apparition of the Virgin with the child. The picture is not signed; Pennis' authorship was concluded from a comparison with other works.

A 1550 Entombment of Christ by Pennis' hand is in the J. Paul Getty Museum . It is drawn with charcoal and brown ink and heightened with white gouache . The 43 by 60 cm drawing shows Joseph von Arimathia , who, surrounded by numerous plaintive figures, lays the body of Christ in his grave carved into the rock. Penni based his presentation exactly on the corresponding Bible text of Matthew .

Created using a similar technique, but in a somewhat smaller format and probably a few years older, is a drawing by Pennis that has been in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2014 under the title Christ in Limbo . It was evidently created around 1547 as a template for an engraving that Léon Davent was to produce. It shows influences from the corresponding sheet of Dürer's Little Passion Story , which was cut into wood around 1509. The drawing, believed to be lost and rediscovered, once belonged to the Everhard Jabach collection , who owned a total of twelve drawings by Luca Pennis.

Two similarly designed drawings by Luca Pennis and a battle before Troy , which is said to be inspired by Penni, are in the Art Institute of Chicago .

Web links

Commons : Luca Penni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ On the Ornamentation of the Italian Renaissance. Retrieved January 31, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography at www.getty.edu
3. ↑ ^{a b} Luca Penni, a Disciple of Raphael in Fontainebleau at www.louvre.fr
4. ↑ Didier Rykner, A Painting by Luca Penni Acquired by the Louvre , January 8, 2013 at www.thearttribune.com
5. ↑ Details on the Entombment of Christ at www.getty.edu
6. ↑ Christ in Limbo at www.metmuseum.org
7. ↑ Penni, Luca at www.artic.edu