Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630)

• Was an Italian painter and engraver.
• He was born and trained 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.

• His favourite subjects were battles, cavalcades, and processions.

• He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Habsburg Netherlands.

• Among his followers was Marzio di Colantonio.

• Tempesta and the Flemish painter Matthijs Bril were commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII to paint wide panoramas of the Procession to Transfer the Relics of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (1572) for the Vatican Palace.

• He completed frescoes in the Palazzina Gambara at the Villa Lante in Bagnaia.

• Tempesta is now known as a printmaker in etching and engraving.
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