Bernardino Poccetti
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Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian
printmaker of etchings
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Biography
Born in
painters guild for such work, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, (Academy of the Arts of Drawing). He is also referred to as: Bernardino Barbatelli or Bernardino delle Grottesche, delle Facciate, or delle Muse. He initially worked in the shop of Michele Tosini, and he participated in the broadly shared decoration of the Chiostro Grande of Santa Maria Novella in the 1580s. In 1583–85, he helped decorate panegyric frescoes for the Palazzo Capponi
. He also completed frescoes in San Pier Maggiore in San Pierino.
In 1592–93, he worked on frescoes in 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) in Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
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In his later works, he is considered one of the Florentine reformers—the so-called Counter-Maniera (
Lodovico Cigoli, Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli, Andrea Boscoli, and Gregorio Pagani. Among the painters he trained or influenced was Michelangelo Cinganelli
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Other works
- Palazzo Usimbardi (now Palazzo Acciaiuoli (1603))
- Santissima Annunziata di Pistoia Pistoia (1601)
- Cloister of Sant'Antonino in San Marco, Florence (1602)
- Massacre of the Innocents, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence (1610)
Gallery
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Capella Strozzi, Santa Trinita
Frescoes for Communicatorio of Sant'Apollonia
Frescoes for vaults of Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
Frescoes for Great Cloister, Santissima Annunziata, Florence
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Foundation ofMonastery of Monte Senario -
Vocation of Cloistered Life -
Death of SanAlessio Falconieri -
Death of San Bonagiunta
References
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- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). "Painting in Italy, 1500–1600". Pelican History of Art. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 627–629.
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 78.
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