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Antonio Tempesta

Header: Antonio Tempesta
Also known as: Antonio Tempesta; primary name: Tempesta, Antonio
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; Italian; Male
Life dates: 1555?-1630
Biography: Painter, draughtsman and etcher from Florence. Pupil of Stradanus. Active in Rome from c.1580. His first dated prints are of 1589. In 1593 he applied for and was granted a papal privilege to cover his map of Rome and other work (Leuschner). On the whole his prints were after his own compositions. He published many of his plates himself; he also had work published by Orlandi, Van Aelst, Andrea Vaccari, Panzera, Capranica, Statius, among others. Produced numerous print series of battles and of hunts, which were intensively copied and adapted.
Bibliography: Bartsch XVII pp.123-188 TIB (3 vols, supplemented by V.Birke in PQ II 1985, pp.205-18) M. Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1625', British Museum, London 2001, p.234 Turner, Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1986

745 related objects

dish

Museum number: 1878,1230.459 |
Producer name: Workshop of:Francesco GrueAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1650-1700 |
Production place: Made in:Castelli

drawing

Museum number: SL,5214.233 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Paul BrilFormerly attributed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1585-1589

drawing; album

Museum number: 1988,1105.91.33 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Attributed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.544 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1880,0508.88 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Ascribed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.537 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Ascribed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.540 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.538 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.543 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0209.33 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: SL,5223.2 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Circle/School of:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: T,14.38 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Jacques CallotAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1616

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.542 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.539 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0714.144 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.541 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.546 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Pieter de Jode IFormerly attributed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1585-1634

drawing

Museum number: T,12.21 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Master of 1527Formerly attributed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1527

drawing

Museum number: 1935,1012.3 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.545 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: SL,5223.3 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Circle/School of:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.363 |
Producer name: Drawn by:James SeymourAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1702-1752

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.547 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Ascribed to:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.535 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: Ff,4.33 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.536 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Drawn by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1630

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1876,1209.779-922 |
Producer name: Print made by:Leonardo ParasoleAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1591 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

medallion

Museum number: 1978,1002.119 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 After:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 17thC(late) |
Production place: Made in:Augsburg

photographic print

Museum number: 1860,1013.191 |
Producer name: After:Antonio TempestaPhotographed by:Philip Henry Delamotte |
Production date: 1858 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Polyxena manibus Achillis immolatur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.315 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Set of four-legged Animals |
Museum number: Gg,6.8.39 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 After:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 17thC

print

Title: Apri dente Adonis interimitur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.291 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1861,0713.670 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotPrint made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1612

print

Title: The story of the seven infantes of Lara |
Museum number: 1856,0112.260 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612

print

Title: The story of the seven infantes of Lara |
Museum number: 1856,0112.292 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612

print

Title: The story of the seven infantes of Lara |
Museum number: 1856,0112.280 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612

print

Title: Tyrrheni nautae in Delphinos Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.222 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Luctatur, et vincit Acheolum Hercules Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.275 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Museum number: 1872,1012.4731 |
Producer name: Print made by:Stefano MulinariAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1781

print

Title: Leucothoe a Phoebo vim patitur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.228 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Martem Veneremque adulterantes Vulcanus reti suo i Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.227 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: The twelve months |
Museum number: 1874,0613.2694 |
Producer name: Published by:Jan Sadeler IAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1572-1600

print

Title: Tertia app.tio Constantino imp: max: divinitus fac Isagogica historia de constantino max. imperatore |
Museum number: X,3.498 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1630

print

Title: Pallas in Helicone musas invisit Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.237 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Maeonides Pyrenei vim effugientes in aves Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.320 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: The twelve months |
Museum number: 1874,0613.2689 |
Producer name: Published by:Jan Sadeler IAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1572-1600

print

Title: The Passion of Christ |
Museum number: 1868,0612.592 |
Producer name: Print made by:Leonardo ParasoleAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1591

print

Title: The story of the seven infantes of Lara |
Museum number: 1856,0112.278 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1861,0713.1693 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1612

print

Museum number: X,3.485 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1630

print

Title: Aetas argentea Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.198 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Python ab Apolline interficitur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.203 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Apulus pastor in oleastrum transit Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.332 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Julius Caesar |
Museum number: X,3.506 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 After:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1650

print

Title: The story of the seven infantes of Lara |
Museum number: 1856,0112.290 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612

print

Title: Set of four-legged Animals |
Museum number: Gg,6.8.35 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 After:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 17thC

print

Title: Cyparissus ab Apolline in arborem commutatur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.286 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Museum number: 1898,0215.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Michelangelo |
Production date: 1613

print

Title: Amore sui inardescens Narcissus in florem transmut Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.221 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: The twelve months |
Museum number: 1874,0613.2688 |
Producer name: Published by:Jan Sadeler IAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1572-1600

print

Title: Militum seges e draconis dentium seminio Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.217 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Graecorum Troianorumque concursus Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.306 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Museum number: X,3.488 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1630

print

Title: Set of four-legged Animals |
Museum number: Gg,6.8.33 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 After:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 17thC

print

Title: Argus a Mercurio iugulatur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.204 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Ceyx Clarium oraculum petens, tempestate in Aegeo Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.300 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Draco a Cadmo interficitur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.216 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Museum number: 1852,0612.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pompeio OrsinoAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1570-1600

print

Title: Deus marinus effectus Glaucus Scyllae nuptias ambi Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.323 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1857,0613.862-983 |
Producer name: Print made by:Carlo LasinioPrint made by:Matteo Carboni |
Production date: 1791-95 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print

Title: Daedalus Icaro alta nimis ambienti orbatur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.268 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: The story of the seven infantes of Lara |
Museum number: 1856,0112.284 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612

print

Title: Amalecitae adversus moysen, qui orando vincibat Sacra Bella Sanctae Veterum Bibliorum Historiae .. |
Museum number: 1948,0410.4.10 |
Producer name: After:Antonio TempestaPublished by:Pieter de Jode I |
Production date: 1613-1618 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Title: Cercopes bonorum insidiatores in simias Iupiter tr Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.325 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Septem orbis admiranda |
Museum number: X,3.191 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1608

print

Title: Ordine che tiene il gran turco quando cavalca |
Museum number: X,3.93-97 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1630

print

Title: Lernaei muneris gerulum in Euboicum mare praecipit Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.277 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Erichtonius cistella laxata cernitur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.208 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Iphigenia Agamemnoni immolanda, A Diana (cervus ei Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.305 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Thisbe Pyrami exemplum aemulata pectus sibi transv Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.225 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Abimelech saxo percussus moritur Sacra Bella Sanctae Veterum Bibliorum Historiae .. |
Museum number: 1948,0410.4.16 |
Producer name: After:Antonio TempestaPublished by:Pieter de Jode I |
Production date: 1613-1618 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Title: Diversas induta formas Mitra diversis divenditur Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.274 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: In aquilam transformatus Iupiter Ganymedem rapit Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.287 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Berecynthia Aeneae classem in Nymphas transformat Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.333 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Museum number: V,10.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco VillamenaAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1619

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1893,0411.15.1-151 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter de Jode IAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Title: Hunting Scenes VII |
Museum number: X,3.348 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1608

print

Title: Hunting Scenes VII |
Museum number: X,3.355 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1608

print

Title: Hunting Scenes V |
Museum number: 1848,1125.55 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1600-1620

print

Title: Hunting Scenes VII |
Museum number: X,3.347 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1608

print

Museum number: X,3.412 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1598

print

Title: Primo libro di caccie varie |
Museum number: X,3.427 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1598

print

Title: Hunting Scenes VII |
Museum number: X,3.354 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1608

print

Title: Primo libro di caccie varie |
Museum number: X,3.391 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1590-1630

print

Title: Andere flrd der Hirsch Jagd Icones Venantum Species varias representantes |
Museum number: 2AA+,a.19.9 |
Producer name: After:Antonio TempestaPrint made by:Egbert Jansz |
Production date: 1598 |
Production place: Published in:Heidelberg (Germany)

print

Title: Hunting Scenes III |
Museum number: X,3.420 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1598

print

Title: Caenis in virginitatis amissae solatium in virum f Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.308 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Historia Septem Infantium de Lara Historia de los Siete Infantes de Lara |
Museum number: 1924,0512.36.1-40 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaAfter:Otto van Veen |
Production date: 1612 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Title: Acidis, Galateaeque furtivi concubitus Metamorphoseon sive transformationum |
Museum number: X,3.321 |
Producer name: BIOG48158 Print made by:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1606

print

Title: Set of four-legged Animals |
Museum number: Z,1.35-54 |
Producer name: Published by:Clement de JongheAfter:Antonio Tempesta |
Production date: 1645-1677

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