Jacobo Pacchiarotto

Jacopo Pacchiarotto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in the early decades of the 16th century in Siena. He fled to France where he joined Rosso Fiorentino in the work at Fontainebleau. He may be the "Girolamo di Pacchia" mentioned by Vasari in his chapter on il Sodoma.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.

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*cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | pages= page 115-116 | publisher= Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006| id= | url= http://books.google.com/booksattributedvid=0pm4wXnyg8JpbRrA&id=2WsBAAAAQAAJ&dq=Wornum&as_brr=1 | authorlink=