Nicolas Beatrizet

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N. Beatrizet: The Rape of Ganymede, copper engraving after a motif by Michelangelo, 16th century

Nicolas Beatrizet (*  1515 in Thionville , †  1565 in Rome ) was a copperplate engraver of French origin who worked in northern Italy during the Renaissance . He may have come from a family of goldsmiths from Nancy in Lorraine , but settled in Rome, where he worked from around 1540 until his death.

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The work of Nicolas Beatrizet includes more than 100 received stitches . There are engravings with religious motifs, e.g. B. after pictures by Raphael or Michelangelo as well as profane motifs from mythology, allegory and architecture of antiquity , such. B. a battle of the Amazons or images of the panorama of ancient Rome. A few portraits are also known. Beatrizet published his work through workshops and editors in Rome during his lifetime . B. first with Tommaso Barlacchi , possibly later also self-published.

Beatrizet may also have anatomical images, such as B. in 1556 made a few engravings to illustrate the medical treatise of Juan Valverde de Amusco . This assumption is based on initials found on such engravings.

Work style

Nicolas Beatrizet's working method and choice of motifs is close to that of Marcantonio Raimondi (* 1480, † 1534), whose style he adopted from templates. However, according to some experts in art history, he could not necessarily imitate the high artistic skill and quality of his role model.

Master with the dice?

The attribution of works by an anonymous engraver, the so-called master with the dice, to Nicolas Beatrizet has not prevailed due to technical contradictions.

literature

  • Kai Hohenfeld: The devil in the body. Affect and movement in Italian graphics in the 16th century [Catalogs of the Kupferstichkabinett, Vol. 6]. Exhibition cat. Kunsthalle Bremen 2014
  • Nicolas Beatrizet . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art . Ozford, Oxford University Press 2002 (English)
  • Nicolas Beatrizet . In: A. von Bartsch: Le peintre graveur, Volume 15 Le Graveurs de l'ecole de Marc-Antoine Raimondi . Vienne, Degen 1813 (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. A. von Bartsch: Le peintre graveur, Volume 15 Le Graveurs de l'ecole de Marc-Antoine Raimondi . Vienne, Degen 1813 p. 227ff.
  2. ^ S. Bianchi: Catalogo dell'opera incisa di Nicola Beatrizet . In four parts in: Grafica d'arte, from 14.2003
  3. ↑ sz BH Thode: The antiquities in the engravings of Marcanton's, Agostino Veneziano's and Marco Dente's . Leipzig, EA Seemann 1881
  4. ↑ Nicolas Beatrice. In: F. Müller: The artists of all times and peoples or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. Stuttgart, Ebner & Seubert 1857
  5. ↑ cf. on this Nicolas Beatrizet . In: GK Nagler: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Munich, Fleischmann 1835, p. 338
personal data
SURNAME Beatrizet, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beatricius, Nicola Beatricio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French artist, engraver during the Renaissance in Italy
DATE OF BIRTH 1515
PLACE OF BIRTH Thionville
DATE OF DEATH 1565
Place of death Rome