Saracchi (artist family)
Saracchi (also Sarachi , Sarrachi or Saracco ) was an Italian family who worked in Milan in the 16th and 17th centuries with their workshop of stone cutting artists and goldsmiths .
The founder of the family of artists was Bartolomeo Saracchi, who is documented as a stone cutter between 1561 and 1578. He had five sons:
- (Giovanni) Ambrogio Saracchi (* 1540/41; † after 1612)
- Simone Saracchi (* 1547 or 1548 in Milan; † 1598 ibid)
- Stefano Saracchi (* 1550 or 1551; † before 1595)
- Michele Saracchi (* 1558; † 1613)
- Rafaele Saracchi (* 1568; † 1588)
Giov. From 1579 Ambrogio Saracchi managed the workshop in which his brothers also worked as stone cutters. Simone carried out the finer work such as decorations and intagli , while Giov. Ambrogio and Stefano Saracchi took over the rough cutting and shaping of the vessels. By marriage with the sculptor and crystal cutter Annibale Fontana (1540–1587), they often used his designs as a template. The Saracchi workshop had wealthy customers such as the Bavarian Court, Emperor Maximilian, Emanuel Philibert of Savoy, the Dukes of Mantua and the Medici . In a letter to their customer Albrecht V on January 13, 1573, the Sarrachi brothers offered to open a workshop in Munich, but this was rejected for reasons of cost. In 1586 they rented a larger house with a workshop and shop within Milan. Later, Giov. Ambrogio Saracchi's sons Pietro Antonio, Gasparo and Costanzo continued the workshop, sometimes also doing goldsmith work and probably also working in Mantua . The Saracchi family of artists is documented in Milan until the 1830s.
The Saracchi brothers were representatives of the late Renaissance and were mainly known for their vessels (often animal vessels) and other objects made of rock crystal with elaborate engravings, some of which depicted biblical or mythological scenes. Works by them can be found in the collections of the Treasury of the Residenz in Munich, the Kunstkammer Vienna , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museo degli Argenti in Florence.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Géza von Habsburg: Princely art chambers in Europe , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne, 1997, pp. 47, 51–54, 70, 108, 160, 177
- ↑ a b Ruth Wolff: Saracchi (crystal cutter, stone cutter and goldsmith family) and Saracchi, Simone . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 101, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023267-7 , p. 171.
- ↑ First names from: Géza von Habsburg: Princely Chambers of Art in Europe , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne, 1997, p. 54