Jacopo da Empoli

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Jacopo da Empoli (30 April 1551 – 30 September 1640) was an Italian Florentine Reformist painter.

Born in Florence as Jacopo Chimenti (Empoli being the birthplace of his father), he worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under Maso da San Friano. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism), Santi di Tito, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded than mannerist predecessors like Vasari. He collaborated with Alessandro Tiarini in some projects. His brother, Domenico Chimenti (1554-1640) born in Empoli, was also a painter.[1] Among his pupils were Felice Ficherelli, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio),[2] Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi.[3]

Finally, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, after the 1620s he completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings .

Selected works

Still-Life - 17th century

References

  1. Catalogo dei quadri che si conservano nella Pinacoteca Vannucci in Perugia, by Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, (1903) page 61.
  2. Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007. p. 214.
  3. Hobbes J.R. p. 81

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