Giacomo Pacchiarotti (; 1474 – 1539 or 1540), or Jacopo Pacchiarotto (), was an Italian painter.
Life and works
He was born in
Siena
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, and worked there.
Bernardino Fungai
Bernardino Fungai (1460– c. 1516) was an Italian painter whose work marks the transition from late Gothic painting to the early Renaissance in the Sienese school. may have been his teacher; Pacchiarotti's style is influenced by Fungai, as well as
Matteo di Giovanni,
Perugino
Pietro Perugino ( ; ; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous ...
, and
Signorelli. He fled to France where he joined
Rosso Fiorentino
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco
Fresco ( or ...
in the work at
Fontainebleau
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.
He may be the ''Girolamo di Pacchia'' mentioned by
Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work '' Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ide ...
in his chapter on
il Sodoma
Il Sodoma (1477 – 14 February 1549) was the name given to the Italy, Italian Renaissance Painting, painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the tr ...
.
[ He painted a ''St. Catherine'' and ''St. Catherine visits the body of Agnes of Montepulciano'' now in the Pinacoteca of Siena. He painted frescoes on the ''Birth of the Virgin'' and the ''Annunciation'' for the church of San Bernardino.][
A number of his paintings are in Siena.
He is recorded as having been a designer for pageants, and was active in the Sienese resistance against ]Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence ...
.
One of his most important works is a tempera on panel representing the ''Madonna and Child with Saints'', was once housed in the Church of Santi Margherita e Matteo in Ortignano Raggiolo, in the province of Arezzo
The province of Arezzo () is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Arezzo. The province is bordered by the regions of Marche, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, and the provinces Siena and Florence of Tuscany. It has an area ...
.
Legacy
Pacchiarotti's role in the Sienese resistance inspired '' Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper'', the title poem of a collection of the same name by Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian literature, Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentar ...
, published in 1876. It is a comic poem attacking Browning's critics.
References
External links
Artnet bio
''Italian Paintings: Sienese and Central Italian Schools''
a collection catalog containing information about Pacchiarotti and his works (see index; plates 82-83).
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1474 births
16th-century deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Siena