Jacopo Coppi, also called ''Giacomo Coppi'' or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1546 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in

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and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi. Jacopo Coppi Judith con la cabeza de Holofernes col par

Jacopo Coppi detto ‘del Meglio’ La Visitazione, Olio su tavola 177 x 141

Biography

He was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the

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, Florence. For the room, he depicted the ''Invention of Gunpowder'' and the ''Family of Darius before Alexander the Great''. Some of the sources dispute the identity of Coppi and Meglio. He is said to have painted in Rome and Bologna. Among his works are frescoes (1577) for the tribune of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome; a painting of ''Ecce Homo'' for the church of Santa Croce in Florence, and a canvas of the Redeemer (1579) for the church of San Salvatore in Bologna.Reale Galleria di Firenze illustrata: Ritratti di pittori, volume 4, by Galleria degli Uffizi, page 160-162.

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1546 births 1591 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Mannerist painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub