Nicolò dell'Abbate

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Nicolò dell'Abbate (with the variants Niccolò and Abate ), also known as Messer Niccolò , (* around 1509 or 1512 in Modena , Italy ; † 1571 (?) In Fontainebleau , France ) was an Italian painter of the Bolognese school who together with others introduced the Italian late Renaissance painting in France. His landscapes influenced the French Classical School .

Life

Abbate probably received training from his father, the plasterer Giovanni dell'Abate, in his youth . He began his career in his hometown Modena as a student of the sculptor Antonio Begarelli . The Ferranes school and especially Dosso Dossi exerted a great influence on him. After 1537 he began to work with Alberto Fontana , often painting building facades such as the Palazzo Pratonieri. Around 1540 he adorned a castle near Modena with large-scale scenes from Virgil's Aeneid . In 1546 he designed the town hall building (Palazzo Pubblico) with Fontana. He probably gained fame through his martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul in the San Pietro Church. His mature style developed under the influence of Antonio da Correggio and Francesco Primaticcio in Bologna (1548–1552), where he created landscape wall paintings in the Palazzo Poggi (today: Palazzo dell'Università).

In 1552 he was appointed to the court of King Henry II in Fontainebleau and stayed in France for the rest of his life . Together with Francesco Primaticcio, he created huge wall paintings with lyrical landscapes and themes from pagan mythology - most of them have been lost. He designed both the Galerie d'Ulysse (destroyed in 1738) and the Galerie Henri II (1552–56) and also painted portraits of the royal family. B. Heinrich II. And Catherine de Medici (1553). His easel paintings , which included a large number of lyrical landscapes based on pagan themes, were burned by the Austrian regent Anna in 1643 . A number of his last, for King Charles IX. created works influenced French painters of the 17th century such as Claude Lorrain or Nicolas Poussin to a large extent . Some of his designs for tapestries served the enamel painting industry of Limoges as a template. His last works are 16 wall paintings from 1571, in which he was assisted by his son Giulio Camillo . His work in France is seen as an important contribution to the Fontainebleau style.

Works

literature

  • Lexicon of Art and Artists. Rheinischer Kunstverlag, licensed edition 1968 German rights: Gustav Lübbe Verlag.
  • Giovanni Copertini: DELL'ABATE, Nicolò . In: Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1931 ( online at treccani.it)

Image examples

  • Rape of Proserpine

  • Landscape with ladies and riders

  • The fall of St. Paul

  • Alcina receives Ruggero

  • concert

  • The asceticism of Scipio

  • Orpheus and Eurydice

  • Portrait of a young man with parrots and pomegranate

Web links

Commons : Nicolò dell'Abate  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Niccolò dell'Abate . In: Encyclopædia Britannica .
personal data
SURNAME Dell'Abbate, Nicolò
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dell'Abbate, Niccolò; Dell'Abate, Niccolò; Niccolò knife
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Modena , Italy
DATE OF DEATH around 1571
Place of death Fontainebleau , France