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Antonio Tempesta
1592
Medium
etching
Dimensions
149; 215
About this artwork
Verbeelding van het seizoen herfst, met Bacchus op een wagen die wordt voortgetrokken door bokken en fazanten. Rondom de wagen lopen saters. Op de achtergrond bacchanten. Titel in het Latijn in de ondermarge.
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...