- Bernardino Poccetti
Bernardino Poccetti, also known as Barbatelli, (
26 August ,1548 -10 October ,1612 ), was an Italian Mannerist painter andprintmaker inetching .Born in
Florence , he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentinepainters guild for such work, the Academy of Design. He is also referred to as: "Bernardino Barbatelli" or "Bernardino delle Grottesche", "delle Facciate", or "delle Muse". He initially worked in the shop ofMichele Tosini , and he participated in the broadly shared decoration of the Chiostro Grande ofSanta Maria Novella in 1580s. In 1583-85, he helped decorate panegyric frescoes for the Palazzo Capponi. He also completed frescoes in San Pier Maggiore inSan Pierino .In 1592-23, he worked on frescoes in the
Certosa di Galluzzo relating to " Life and Death of San Bruno". He painted scenes from the life of founder of the Convent of the Servites for theAnnunziata . He painted scenes from the Life of St. Anthony (fresco) for San Marco. He frescoed scenes from the Life of Cosimo I as decoration of great Salon of the Pitti Palace. He also labored for other charterhouses in Pisa and Siena. He also painted frescoes, considered his masterpiece, in the Cappella del Giglio (Cappella Neri, 1599) inSanta Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi . In his later works, he is considered on the Florentine reformers, member of the so-called "Contra-Maniera" along withSanti di Tito ,Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano),Lodovico Cigoli , Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli,Andrea Boscoli , andGregorio Pagani , that imbued naturalism into the academic Mannerism of his age.He did two rare etchings, the "Crucifixion", a very powerful print, and the "Bearing of the Cross"; like many Italian etchers of the period he may have found it hard to make money from prints and abandoned the medium.
Other works
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Palazzo Usimbardi (nowPalazzo Acciaiuoli , 1603)
*Santissima Annunziata,Pistoia (1601)
*Cloister of Sant'Antonio in San Marco, Florence (1602)
*"Massacre of the Innocents",Ospedale degli Innocenti , Florence (1610)External links
References
*cite book | first= Sydney J.| last= Freedberg| year=1993| title= Pelican History of Art| chapter= Painting in Italy, 1500-1600| editor= | others= | pages=627-629 |Penguin Books Ltd| publisher= | id= | url= | authorlink=
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 78| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=
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