Jacopo da Empoli

Self-portrait

Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, San Lorenzo, Florence

Jacopo da Empoli (30 April 1551 – 30 September 1640) was an Italian Florentine Reformist painter.

Born in Florence as Jacopo Chimenti (Empoli being the birthplace of his father), he worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under Maso da San Friano. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism), Santi di Tito, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded than mannerist predecessors like Vasari. He collaborated with Alessandro Tiarini in some projects. His younger brother, Domenico Chimenti, born in Empoli, was also a painter.^[1] Among his pupils were Felice Ficherelli, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio),^[2] Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi.^[3]

Finally, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, after the 1620s he completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings.

Selected works

Madonna in Glory with Saint Luke and Saint Ives (1579) – Louvre, Paris
Sacrifice of Isaac (1590s) – Oil on copper, 32 x 25 cm, Uffizi, Florence [1]
Susanna and the Elders (1600) – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Sant'Eligio (1614) – Uffizi, Florence
Carlo Borromeo and the Rospigliosi Family (1613) – Church of San Domenico, Pistoia
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, Florence
Adoration of Shepherds (attributed) – [2]
Preaching of John the Baptist – San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence
Michelangelo presents his model of San Lorenzo to Leo X (1617–1619) – Casa Buonarroti, Florence
The Wedding of Caterina de Medici to Henry II
Drunkedness of Noah – Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Saint Clair accepts the veil (vows) [3] (1620) – Caen, France
Final Judgement – [4]
Pala della Concezione – San Bartolomeo [5]
"Three Marys At Tomb" – Blanton Art Museum, Austin, Texas

↑ Catalogo dei quadri che si conservano nella Pinacoteca Vannucci in Perugia, by Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, (1903) page 61.
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