Bernardino Poccetti
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Bernardino Poccetti, also known as Barbatelli, (26 August 1548- 10 October 1612), was a an Italian Mannerist painter.
Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentine guild for such work, the Academy of Design. He initially worked in the shop Michele Tosini, and he participated in the broadly shared decoration of the Chiostro Grande of Santa Maria Novella in 1580s. In 1583-85, he helped decorate panegyric frescoes for the Palazzo Capponi. He also completed frescoes in San Pier Maggiore in San Pierino.
In 1592-23, he worked on frescoes in the Certosa di Val d'Ema relating to Life and Death of San Bruno. He also labored for other charterhouses in Pisa and Siena. He also painted frescoes, considered his masterpiece, in the Cappella del Giglio (Cappella Neri, 1599) in Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. In his later works, he is considered on the Florentine reformers, member of the so-called Contra-Maniera along with Santi di Tito, Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano), Lodovico Cigoli, Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli, Andrea Boscoli, and Gregorio Pagani, that imbued naturalism into the academic Mannerism of his age.
[edit] Other works
- Palazzo Usimbardi (now Palazzo Acciaiuoli, 1603)
- Santissima Annunziata, Pistoia (1601)
- Cloister of Sant'Antonio in San Marco, Florence (1602)
- Massacre of the Innocents, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence (1610)
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[edit] References
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). “Painting in Italy, 1500-1600”, Pelican History of Art, 627-629.
