Wenzel Jamnitzer
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| Examples of his work can be seen in the [[Louvre]] gallery in France and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in [[London]]. | Examples of his work can be seen in the [[Louvre]] gallery in France and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in [[London]]. | ||
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| - | The visual wit and sophistication of Mannerism in northern hands, which made it pre-eminently a [[Noble court|court]] style, found natural vehicles in goldsmith's work, set off by gems and colored enamels, in which the misshaped pearls we call "baroque" might form human and animal torsos, both as jewelry for personal adornment and in objects made for the ''[[Wunderkammer]]''. Ewers and vases took fantastic shapes, as did standing cups with onyx or agate bowls, and elaborate saltcellars like the ''[[Saliera]]'' of [[Benvenuto Cellini]], the apex of Mannerist goldsmithing, completed in 1543 for Francis I and later given to Rudolf's [[Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria|uncle]], another [[Schloss Ambras|great collector]]. [[Wenzel Jamnitzer]] and his son Hans, goldsmiths to a succession of Holy Roman Emperors, including Rudolf, were unexcelled in the north. In the Netherlands a uniquely anamorphic "[[auricular style]]", employing writhing and anti-architectural cartilaginous motifs was developed by the van Vianen family of silversmiths. | ||
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| - | Though Mannerist sculptors produced life-size bronzes, the bulk of their output by unit was of editions of small bronzes, often reduced versions of the large compositions, which were intended to be appreciated by holding and turning in the hands, when the best "give an aesthetic stimulus of that involuntary kind that sometimes comes from listening to music". Small low [[relief]] panels in bronze, often gilded, were used in various settings, as on Rudolph's crown. | ||
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| - | [[Sphinx|Female sphinxes]] with extravagantly elongated necks and prominent breasts support a Burgundian cabinet of walnut in the [[Frick Collection]], New York; soon [[Antwerp]] made a specialty of richly carved and veneered cabinets inlaid with tortoiseshell, ebony, and ivory, with architectural interiors, mirrored to multiply reflections in feigned spaces. In England the Mannerist excesses of [[Jacobean furniture]] were expressed in extreme legs turned to imitate stacked covered standing cups, and a proliferation of enlaced [[strapwork]] covered plane surfaces. Following the success of [[Brussels tapestry|Brussels tapestries]] woven after the [[Raphael cartoons]], Mannerist painters like [[Bernard van Orley]] and [[Perino del Vaga]] were called upon to design [[cartoon]]s in Mannerist style for the [[tapestry]] workshops of Brussels and Fontainebleau. Painterly compositions in Mannerist taste appeared in [[Limoges enamel]]s too. [[Moresque]]s, swags and [[festoon]]s of fruit inspired by rediscovered Ancient Roman [[grotesque]] ornament, first displayed in the [[Raphael Rooms|Raphael school Vatican ''Stanze'']], were disseminated through engravings in an ornamental vocabulary expressed in the North less in such [[fresco]]es and more in [[tapestry]] and [[illuminated manuscript]] borders. | ||
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| - | In France, [[Saint-Porchaire ware]] of Mannerist forms and decor was produced in limited quantities for a restricted fashion-conscious clientele from the 1520s to the 1540s, while the crowded, disconcertingly lifelike compositions of snakes and toads characterize the Mannerist painted [[earthenware]] platters of [[Bernard Palissy]]. Like the Jamnitzers on occasion, Palissy made moulds from real small creatures and plants to apply to his creations. | ||
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (sometimes Jamitzer, or Wenzel Gemniczer) born 1507/1508 in Vienna, died December 19, 1585, in Nürnberg) was an German etcher and goldsmith, who worked in Nuremberg; the best known goldsmith of his era.
Examples of his work can be seen in the Louvre gallery in France and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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