Girolamo Odam
Girolamo Odam (1681after 1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was renowned as a pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver.
Also recorded as Giovanni Girolamo Odam · Hieronymus Odam · Johann Hieronymus Odam
Girolamo Odam
Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla from Sevilla, España · "Sanctorum Septem Dormientium..." · CC BY 2.0
- Born
- 1681 · Toul.
- Died
- 1718
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson · architect · printmaker · sculptor · artist · engraver · etcher
- Fields
- allegory · landscape
- Teachers
- Pier Leone Ghezzi · Carlo Maratta
- Languages
- Italian
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Girolamo Odam (1681after 1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was renowned as a pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver.
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Training under Pier Leone Ghezzi and Carlo Maratta is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are allegory and landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Employment is recorded with Arcadian Academy.
Born in Rome to a family from Lorraine, he trained under Carlo Maratta and Pier Leone Ghezzi. He was a member of the Academy of Arcadia, where he was known as Dorindo Nonacrino, and was well versed not only in art but also philosophy and mathematics, which he had studied under Giordano Vitale. Odam was also a well known antiquarian, and was closely connected to Cardinals Pietro Ottoboni and Alessandro Albani, patrons of the arts and collectors of ancient artifacts. He was a close collaborator of Philipp von Stoschone of the leading antiquarians of the first half of the 18th century.
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, architect
Joham Hieronymus Odam
Hieronymus Odam, pen and brown ink with grey wash, 184 × 151 mm, c. 1718–1726, Mercury wearing petazus and a cloak runs to the left with caduceus and little Dionysus in his hands. The National Museum in Kraków. Collections of the Princes Czartoryski Museum, inv. no. MNK XV Rr. 2747. Photograph by Paweł Gołyźniak.
Girolamo Odam · Paweł Gołyźniak, ‘Hieronymus Odam, engraved gems and antiquarianism’, Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) 16, Stockholm 2023, 183-224. ISSN: 2000-0898. ISBN: 978-9
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1681
Girolamo Odam born at Toul.
1718
Girolamo Odam died.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5564776: Girolamo Odam
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- “Girolamo Odam”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Odam, Girolamo or Giovanni Girolamo, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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His recorded language was Italian.
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