Giovanni Battista Braccelli
Giovanni Battista Bracelli or Braccelli is the name of more than one engraver and painter active in central Italy in the Baroque period,[1] between about 1616 and 1649.[2]
According to Filippo Baldinucci, one Giovanni Battista Braccelli studied under Giovanni Battista Paggi ("il Paggi") and was active in Genova, where he worked in the churches of and Santi Cosma e Damiano, and where he died in 1609 at the age of 25.[3]:419[1] According to Stefano Ticozzi, he was born in 1584, became the most valued assistant to Paggi, and died before his twenty-fifth birthday.[4]:208
A Florentine Giovan Batista Braccelli was a pupil and collaborator of Jacopo da Empoli. He published in 1624 in Livorno a Bizzarie di varie figure, a book of etchings with a dedication to Don Pietro de' Medici (who died in 1604).[1][5][6]
Other mentions are of a Florentine Giovanni Battista Bracelli who was a pupil of Giulio Parigi, and another also known as "Brazzé" or "Il Bigio". It is not clear whether these were different people to those above.[1]
A collection of engravings entitled Figure con instrumenti musicali e boscarecci, published in Rome after 1624, also bears the name Giovanni Battista Bracelli, as does a rare Alfabeto figurato published in Naples in 1632.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Annamaria Negro Spina (2003). Bracelli, Giovanni Battista (fl 1616–50). Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T010770. (subscription required).
- ^ British Museum. Giovanni Battista Bracelli (Biographical details). Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ Filippo Baldinucci (1702). Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua (in Italian). Firenze: Stamperìa di Giuseppe Manni.
- ^ Stefano Ticozzi (1830). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0ownAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA208 Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra ... (volume 1, in Italian). Milano: Gaetano Schiepatti.
- ^ Bracèlli, Giovanni Battista (in Italian). Enclopedie online. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2014.
- ^ Bizzarie di varie figure/di Giovanbatista Braccelli, pittore fiorentin. Livorno: s.n., 1624 (copy in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress).
Further reading[]
- Simona Sperindei, (2017). 'Nuovi documenti sul pittore ed acquafortista seicentesco Giovan Battista Braccelli'. In: Atti delle giornate di studi "Caravaggio e i suoi" (Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, 2016), a cura di Pierluigi Carofano Pisa. ISBN 9788869400810, pages 181-190.
- 17th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Painters from Tuscany
- Italian engravers
- Italian Baroque painters
- 1584 births
- 1609 deaths
- Italian painter, 17th-century birth stubs