Luca Ciamberlano
Luca Ciamberlano (born circa 1580) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period.
Biography
[edit]He was born at Urbino. In the early part of his life he applied himself to the study of civil law, in which he had taken a doctor's degree, when he abandoned the study of jurisprudence to devote himself to painting and engraving, particularly the latter.[1] He became the leading graphic artist of his day.
From 1599 to 1641 he resided at Rome,[1] where he executed a great number of plates from his own designs, as well as after the works of the most celebrated Italian painters, in the style of Agostino Carracci.[2] He codified and engraved Carracci's teaching system in a work published in Rome in 1626 by Pietro Stefanoni, called Scuola perfetta per imparare a disegnare tutto il corpo umano.[3]
Ciamberlano collaborated with Guido Reni between 1610 and 1612, when he made engravings based on Reni's drawings of the Life of St Philip.[4] He engraved the anatomical drawings of Pietro da Cortona between 1618 and 1620.[5] He created a nine-part series of engravings depicting the Passion of Christ, dated 1621 and probably published by Johannes Eillarts.[6]
Of his plates, 114 are known, but as many as 331 have been conjectured.[1] They were entirely executed with the graver, which he handled with neatness and intelligence; his drawing of the figure is tolerably correct. He sometimes signed his plates with his name, and sometimes marked them with the cipher LC. Among them are the following:
- Thirteen plates of Christ and the twelve Apostles; after Raphael.
- St. Jerome dead, lying upon a stone; after the same. (pictured)
- St. Thomas; after Bassano.
- Nine plates of Angels carrying the instruments of the Passion.
- Duke Francesco Maria II of Urbino.
- Christ on the Mount of Olives; after A. Casolano.
- Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen; after Federigo Barocci. 1609.
- Christ appearing to St. Theresa; after Carracci.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nagler, Georg Kaspar; Andreas Andresen; Carl Clauss (1871). Die Monogrammisten (in German). Hirth. pp. 274–275. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ Georgia Museum of Art (1995). Andrew Ladis; Carolyn H. Wood; William U. Eiland (eds.). The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque Workshop. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820316482. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ Pepper, D. Stephan (September 1999). ""The Illustrated Bartsch": The Carraccis". Print Quarterly. 16 (3): 290–296. JSTOR 41825258.
- ^ Pepper, D. Stephen (June 1971). "Guido Reni's Roman Account Book-I: The Account Book". The Burlington Magazine. 113 (819): 309–317. JSTOR 876688.
- ^ Merz, Jörg Martin (2008). Pietro Da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architectur. Yale University Press. p. 7. ISBN 9780300111231.
- ^ Zeitler, Kurt, "Luca Ciamberlano's Passion Series for Scipione Borghese", Print Quarterly (September 2014) Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 269–279
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ciamberlano, Luca". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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