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Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta, a Florentine painter and printmaker, participated as a young artist in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio under Vasari. His prints became models for other artists. His painting also explored unusual supports: in Pearl Fishing, preserved at the Louvre, oil on lapis lazuli brings divers, canoes and the gathering of shells into a marine landscape.

Hunting scenes engage with the movements of animals and their pursuers. One print shows a stag driven into a river, a boar, dogs and mounted hunters. Other subjects take on an allegorical dimension. In The Silver Age, peasants work, thatch huts and prepare food. Human activities thus join animal imagery in a repertoire widely disseminated through printmaking.

This profile brings together identity references for Antonio Tempesta and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

1auction reference

1auction house

1documented result with a price

Lempertz

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Works recorded at auction

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Lempertz · Lot 1313

Jagdszene einer Wildschweinjagd

Feder und Pinsel in Braun auf Papier

Auction date : 2019-05-18

Published result : 4712 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 3000

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AGORHA · Reference link only; no institutional text or image copied.
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CULTURAITALIA-ICCU · CC-BY-SA; ICCU CulturaItalia
ICCD-ArCo · CC-BY-4.0; Ministero della Cultura / ICCD-ArCo. Reference link only; no image copied.
LoC · Reference link only; institutional text and images are not reproduced.
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Profile updated : 2026-10-23