Girolamo Macchietti

Girolamo Macchietti (c1535/1541-1592) was an Italian painter active in Florence, working in a Mannerist style. He was a pupil of Michele di Ridolfi. During 1556-62, worked as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio, where he worked with Mirabello Cavalori. He participated in the Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with two canvases, one relating a "Jason and Medea" (1570) and the other a "Baths of Pozzuoli" (1572). He also painted an altarpiece on the "Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence" for Santa Maria Novella. In 1577, he completed a "Gloria di San Lorenzo" for Empoli Cathedral. He traveled to Rome and spent two years in Spain (1587-1589). No works are recorded from these travels.

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