Tanzio da Varallo
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painter of the late-Mannerist
Mannerism
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
or early Baroque period.
He was born in Riale d’Alagna, and was active mainly in Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
and Piedmont
Piedmont
Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...
, including the Sacro Monte
Sacro Monte di Varallo
The Sacred Mountain of Varallo is the oldest of the Italian and foreign constructions of its kind. It was founded in 1491, by friar Bernardino Caimi of the Ordine dei Minori Osservanti di San Francesco...
at Varallo Sesia
Varallo Sesia
Varallo , commonly known as Varallo Sesia, is a comune and town of c. 7,400 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli in the Piedmont region of Italy...
, where he worked contemporaneously with Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (il Morazzone)
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli was an Italian painter of the early Baroque era in Milan....
. He painted a Circumcision for Fara San Martino, and a Virgin with saints for the Collegiate at Pescocostanzo
Pescocostanzo
Pescocostanzo is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy-External links:* * *...
. Some of his paintings acquire the influence of Tenebrist
Tenebrism
Tenebrism, from the Italian tenebroso , is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image...
styles and morbid thematic characteristic of the followers of Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
and also of many Lombard
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
painters, including his somewhat gruesome David with Goliath (1620). His animated and crowded Battle of Sennacherib (1627-28) for the Basilica of San Gaudenzio
Basilica of San Gaudenzio
The Basilica of San Gaudenzio is a church in Novara, Piedmont, northern Italy. It is the highest point in the city. It is dedicated to Gaudentius of Novara, first Christian bishop of the city....
reflects the influence of his work in the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, painting scenographic diorama scenes.
Works
- Madonna col Bambino, San Francesco e donatore, oil on canvas, c. 1610, ColledimezzoColledimezzoColledimezzo is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy....
(CH), parish church of San Giovanni Evangelista. - Circoncisione, oil on canvas, c. 1610, Fara San MartinoFara San MartinoFara San Martino is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy...
(CH), church of San Remigio. - Pentecoste (cinque frammenti), oil on canvas, NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
, previously in the church of Santa Restituta, now in the Museo di CapodimonteMuseo di CapodimonteThe National Museum of Capodimonte is located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy. The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important Ancient Roman...
. - Madonna dell'incendio sedato, oil on canvas, 1614, PescocostanzoPescocostanzoPescocostanzo is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy-External links:* * *...
(AQ), collegiate church of Santa Maria in Colle. - San Carlo comunica agli appestati, oil on canvas, 1615-16, DomodossolaDomodossolaDomodossola is a city and comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy...
(VB), collegiate church of Santi Gervasio e Protasio. - Sant'Antonio da Padova, oil on canvas, Varallo SesiaVarallo SesiaVarallo , commonly known as Varallo Sesia, is a comune and town of c. 7,400 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli in the Piedmont region of Italy...
, Pinacoteca Civica. - San Sebastiano curato da Sant'Irene e un angelo, oil on canvas, National Gallery of ArtNational Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
, WashingtonWashington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, Samuel H. Kress Collection. - Cristo condotto per la prima volta al tribunale di Pilato, fresco, 1617-18, Varallo Sesia, Sacro MonteSacro Monte di VaralloThe Sacred Mountain of Varallo is the oldest of the Italian and foreign constructions of its kind. It was founded in 1491, by friar Bernardino Caimi of the Ordine dei Minori Osservanti di San Francesco...
, Cappella XXVII. - Pilato si lava le mani, fresco, 1619-20, Varallo Sesia, Sacro Monte, Cappella XXXIV.
- San Giovanni Evangelista, Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, San Teodoro e Santa Apollonia, oil on canvas, 1618, Verbania – PallanzaVerbaniaVerbania is a city and comune on the shore of Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, in northwest Italy, about north-west of Milan and about from Locarno in Switzerland.-Overview:...
, Museo del Paesaggio. - Davide con la testa di Golia, oil on canvas, Varallo Sesia, Pinacoteca Civica.
- Gentiluomo, oil on canvas, MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Pinacoteca di Brera. - Gentildonna, oil on canvas, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera.
- Testa di gentiluomo, oil on copper, GallarateGallarateGallarate is a city and comune of Lombardy, northern Italy, in the Province of Varese. It has a population of some 51,700....
, Museo Gallaratese di Studi Patri. - San Gerolamo, oil on canvas, Kansas CityKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. - La Vergine col Bambino adorata dai santi Domenico e Francesco, oil on canvas, LumellognoLumellognoLumellogno is a settlement of some 1,500 people to the south-west of the city of Novara in the Italian province Piedmont. Administratively it is a quarter of the Commune of Novara; geographically it is separated from the town by paddy fields and the torrent Agogna.Lumellogno was the birthplace of...
(NO), church of Santi Ippolito e Cassiano. - Due angeli che reggono la corona della Vergine, oil on canvas, Varallo Sesia, Pinacoteca.
- Giacobbe e Rachele, oil on canvas, TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Galleria Sabauda. - Visitazione, oil on canvas, Vagna, frazioneFrazioneA frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...
of Domodossola, church of San Brizio. - Gentiluomo, oil on canvas, c.1625, Cleveland (Ohio), The Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Adorazione dei pastori con San Carlo Borromeo, oil on canvas, Turin, Museo Civico di Arte Antica.
- Adorazione dei pastori con San Francesco e San Carlo Borromeo, oil on canvas, Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. - La fuga in Egitto, oil on canvas, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Samuel H. Kress Collection.
- San Giovanni Battista nel deserto, oil on canvas, Tulsa, OklahomaTulsa, OklahomaTulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
, Philbrook Museum of ArtPhilbrook Museum of ArtThe Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma is an art museum and former home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his wife Genevieve Phillips. , the museum has a staff of 60 and an operating budget of nearly $6 million....
. - Gesù davanti ad Erode, fresco, 1628, Varallo Sesia, Sacro Monte, 1628, Cappella XXVIII.
- San Carlo porta in processione il Sacro Chiodo, oil on canvas, c. 1629, CellioCellioCellio is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km north of Vercelli...
(VC), parish church of San Lorenzo. - Santi in adorazione della Trinità, Fontaneto d’Agogna (NO), oil on canvas, parish church of Beata Vergine Assunta.
- I Santi Pietro e Marco, oil on canvas, Turin, Galleria Sabauda.
- Cristo Crocifisso, oil on canvas, GerenzanoGerenzanoGerenzano is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km northwest of Milan and about 25 km southeast of Varese....
, parish church of Santi Pietro e Paolo. - Decorazione della cappella dell'Angelo Custode, fresco, and Sennacherib sconfitto dall'Angelo, oil on canvas, 1617-19, Novara, Basilica di San Gaudenzio.
- Sennacherib sconfitto dall'Angelo, oil on canvas, c. 1618, Novara, Museo Civico.
- Annuncio dei pastori, Adorazione dei pastori, Gloria angelica, 1631-32, fresco, Milan, Santa Maria della Pace.
- Il Redentore in gloria, I profeti Daniele e Isaia, Angeli musicanti, fresco, 1631-32, Milan, church of Sant’Antonio Abate.
- San Rocco, oil on canvas, Varallo Sesia, Pinacoteca (previously in the parish church of Camasco, frazione of Varallo Sesia).
- La Madonna col Bambino e i santi Carlo e Francesco, oil on canvas, Varallo Sesia, Pinacoteca.
- Il martirio dei beati francescani a Nagasaki, oil on canvas, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera.
- Beato Giovanni Tavelli da Tossignano, oil on canvas, Varallo Sesia, Pinacoteca.
- Decorazione a fresco della cappella Gibellini, BorgosesiaBorgosesiaBorgosesia is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km north of Vercelli.The largest town in the Valsesia, it is crossed by the Sesia River....
(VC), collegiate church of Santi Pietro e Paolo.
Sources
- Artnet biography from Grove Encyclopedia of Art.
- Parts of this article were derived from its counterpart in the Italian WikipediaItalian WikipediaThe Italian Wikipedia is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on May 11, 2001 and first edited on June 11, 2001. As of 2011 it has over articles and more than registered accounts...
, specifically from this version which provides the following bibliography:- Giovanni Testori, Il manierismo piemontese e lombardo del Seicento, 1955, catalogo della Mostra, Torino-Ivrea;
- Giovanni Testori, Tanzio da Varallo, catalogo della mostra, Torino, 1959 (ora in G. Testori, La realtà della Pittura, Longanesi, Milano, 1995);
- Marco Bona Castellotti, Introduzione alla mostra, in "Tanzio da Varallo. Realismo, fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento", Milano, Federico Motta Editore, 2000, (Catalogo della mostra su Tanzio tenuta a Milano, Palazzo Reale);
- Filippo Maria Ferro, Tanzio e l’Angelo, ibidem;
- Elena De Filippis, Tanzio al Sacro Monte, ibidem;