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Plate 23: Conference on What Steps to Take Upon the Romans' New Troops Approaching Across the Alps, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas)

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Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome)

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Antonio Tempesta (1555 – 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art connects Baroque Rome and the Flemish culture of Antwerp was born in Florence. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576. He was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He was part of the large team of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. He painted a series of turbulent and crowded battle scenes for the Medici. He also completed a series of engravings on outdoor courtly hunting scenes. When in Rome, he associated with artists from the Habsburg Netherlands. Tempesta is now best known as a printmaker in etching and engraving. He also drew many designs for tapestries.

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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antonio tempesta otto van veen etching prints after otto van veen plate conference steps romans and new troops new troops alps war romans batavians romanorvm batavorvm societas batavorvm societas egypt roman period egyptian civilisation 17th century history of rome italian art high resolution engraving baroque metropolitan museum of art apennine peninsula
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1611
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Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino: Engravings and Etchings

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Set of random Italian prints from NYPL collection
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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antonio tempesta otto van veen etching prints after otto van veen plate conference steps romans and new troops new troops alps war romans batavians romanorvm batavorvm societas batavorvm societas egypt roman period egyptian civilisation 17th century history of rome italian art high resolution engraving baroque metropolitan museum of art apennine peninsula