Jacopo Vignali was an Italian

Italian people

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 painter of the early Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

Vignali was born in Pratovecchio

Pratovecchio

-History:Dono di Paolo, father of the Florentine artist Paolo Uccello, was a barber-surgeon from Pratovecchio. Dono moved to Florence and became a citizen there in 1373.-Main sights:...

, near Arezzo

Arezzo

Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....

, and initially trained under Matteo Rosselli

Matteo Rosselli

Matteo Rosselli was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Counter-Maniera and early Baroque. He is best known however for his highly-populated grand-manner historical paintings.-Biography:...

. He painted the ceiling fresco of the Love of the Fatherland and Jacob's dream for the Casa Buonarroti

Casa Buonarroti

Casa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence. The building was a property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo, which he left to his nephew, Lionardo Buonarroti. The house was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger...

 in Florence. In 1616 he entered the Accademia del Disegno in Florence

Florence

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. In the 1620s, he painted the Investiture of St Benedict for the Confraternità di San Benedetto Bianco.
In 1622–3 he also contributed to fresco cycles for the Medici

Medici

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 at the Casino Mediceo di San Marco in Florence, and at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale

Villa di Poggio Imperiale

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. Among his pupils were Domenico Bettini

Domenico Bettini

Domenico Bettini was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Florence. He was first a pupil of Jacopo Vignali, but afterwards went to Rome, and became a pupil of Mario Nuzzi. He painted still lifes with fruit, flowers, birds, and fish....

, Romolo Panfi, Alessandro Rosi, and Carlo Dolci

Carlo Dolci

Carlo Dolci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.-Biography:...

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