Girolamo Macchietti

Biography

Origins and apprentice

Girolamo Macchietti (c. 1535/1541-1592) was an Italian painter active in Florence, working in a Mannerist style. He was a pupil of Michele di Ridolfi. During 1556-62, worked as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio, where he worked with Mirabello Cavalori. He participated in the Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with two canvases, one relating a Jason and Medea (1570) and the other a Baths of Pozzuoli (1572). He also painted an altarpiece on the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence for Santa Maria Novella. In 1577, he completed a Gloria di San Lorenzo for Empoli Cathedral. He traveled to Rome and spent two years in Spain (1587–1589). No works are recorded from these travels.

Works

• Pala Lioni, 1562-68, Florence, Villa Lioni-Michelozzi-Roti-Clavarino
• Epiphany, 1568, Florence, San Lorenzo
• Jason and Medea, 1570-72, Studiolo of Francisco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
• The baths of Pozzuoli, 1570-72, Studiolo of Francisco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
• Martyrdom of San Lorenzo, 1573, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
• Virgin's girdle, 1574, Santa Agata, Florence
• Apotheosis of San Lorenzo, 1577, Empoli Cathedral
• Allegory of Prudence, (Private Collection), traditionally attributed to Vasari until recently.
• Crucifixion, 1590, San Giovanni di Scopoli, Florence

Bibliography

• Raffaello Borghini, Il Riposo, 1584, p. 604.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane, L'Ajone, favola narrativa burlesca, 1623.
• Francesco Del Furia, Di alcuni scritti di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane, 1818, pp. 1, 66.
• Atti dell'imp e reale Accademia della Crusca, Florence, 1829, Vol.2, p. 79.
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1971). Pelican History of Art. ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 616–619. 
• Marta Privitera, Girolamo Macchietti tra Palazzo Vecchio e San Lorenzo, 1989.
• Marta Privitera, Girolamo Macchietti a Napoli, 1990.
• Marta Privitera, Girolamo Macchietti: un pittore dello Studiolo di Francesco I (Firenze, 1535-1592), Jandi Sapi ed., 1996.
• The Grove Dictionary of Art, MacMillan Publishers (2000)
• Marta Privitera, Girolamo Macchietti, la Pala Lioni, in "Altomani 2004", n.1.
• Alessandro Nesi, Un quadro a Kiev e altre note su Girolamo Macchietti, in "Nuovi Studi" n.12, 2006, pp. 129-136, pic. 180.

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