Jacopo da Empoli was an Italian

Italy

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 late-mannerist

Mannerism

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

 painter.

Born in Florence

Florence

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 as Jacopo Chimenti (Empoli

Empoli

Empoli is a town and comune in Tuscany, Italy, about 20 km southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the latter river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The commune's territory becomes a hilly one as it departs from the river...

 being the birth place of his father), he worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under Maso da San Friano

Maso da San Friano

Maso da San Friano was an Italian painter active in Florence. His real name was Tomaso D'Antonio Manzuoli. He was born in San Friano and died in Florence....

. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism

Counter-Mannerism

Counter-Mannerism is a general art historical term for a trend in painting, printmaking and interior decoration that originated as a sub-category of Mannerism. Contra-Maniera followed the general worldliness of the second generation of Mannerist painters...

), Santi di Tito

Santi di Tito

Santi di Tito was an Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style, what is sometimes referred to as Contra-Maniera or Counter-Mannerism.-Biography:...

, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded than mannerist predecessors like Vasari. He collaborated with Alessandro Tiarini

Alessandro Tiarini

Alessandro Tiarini was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.He was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt, and early on they tried, unsuccessfully to guide him towards becoming a cleric...

 in some projects. Among his pupils were Felice Ficherelli

Felice Ficherelli

Felice Ficherelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in San Gimignano and active mainly in Tuscany. Among Ficherelli's early patrons was Conte Bardi, who persuaded Felice to move to Florence and to study with the painter Jacopo da Empoli. Empoli's influence is evident in the...

, Giovanni Battista Brazzè

Giovanni Battista Brazzè

Giovanni Battista Brazzè was an Italian painter of genre subjects, active in late-Mannerist period, active in Florence. He trained with Jacopo da Empoli.-References:...

 (Il Bigio), Giovanni Battista Vanni

Giovanni Battista Vanni

Giovanni Battista Vanni was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period.He was born in either Pisa or Florence in 1599 ; he studied successively under Jacopo da Empoli, Aurelio Lomi, and Matteo Rosselli, and then became a disciple of Cristofano Allori. He is better known as an engraver...

, and Virgilio Zaballi.

In later years, the naturalism becomes less evident. The porcelain features of his figures accentuated the academic classical trends that restrained Florentine painting during the 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.

Finally, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, after 1620s he completed a series of still-life paintingshttp://www.wga.hu/bio/e/empoli/biograph.htmlhttp://www.spargelzeit.de/spargel---kunst-17jhdt-jacopo-chimenti.html.

Selected works

• Madonna in Glory with Saint Luke and Saint Ives (1579) - Louvre
  Louvre
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  , Paris
  Paris
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• Sacrifice of Isaachttp://www.wga.hu/html/e/empoli/sacrific.html (1590s) - Oil on copper, 32 x 25 cm, Uffizi
  Uffizi
  The Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.-History:...
  
  , Florence
  Florence
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• Susanna and the Elders (1600) - Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Sant'Eligio (1614) - Uffizi
  Uffizi
  The Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.-History:...
  
  , Florence
• Carlo Borromeo and the Rospigliosi Family (1613) - Church of San Domenico, Pistoia
  Pistoia
  Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...
  
  
• Still Life with Games (1620s) - Oil on canvas, 114 x 152 cm, Private collection
• Judgement of Midas (1624) - Pistoia
• Saint Ives, Protector of Widows and Orphans - Palatine Gallery
  Palazzo Pitti
  The Palazzo Pitti , in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio...
  
  , Florence
• Adoration of Shepherds (attributed)http://www.cottoniancollection.org.uk/main/collection/content/index.cfm?fsa=dspObject&objectID=33§ionID=3&edu=0
• Preaching of John the Baptist - San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence.
• Michelangelo presents his model of San Lorenzo to Leo X (1617-19) - 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...
  
  , Florence
• The Wedding of Caterina de Medici to Henry II
• Drunkedness of Noah - Uffizi Gallery, Florence
• Saint Clair accepts the veil (vows) http://www.ville-caen.fr/MBA/Empoli.htm (1620) - Caen, France
• Final Judgement http://www.fondazioneitalianelmondo.com/2004/NOTIZIARIO/Sezione_ARTE/Jacopo_da_Empoli_galleria_3.htm
• Pala della Concezione - San Bartolomeohttp://www.carasantalucia.it/pittura/Empoli/Empoli.htm

External links

• Retrospective on Jacopo Da Empoli