Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi (1567–1636) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, who was born and lived in

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Biography

He was likely the son of the painter Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi, also from Pesaro, who had married the sister of the painter Girolamo Danti. Gian Giacomo studied with

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and

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, but was strongly influenced by another artist,

Federico Barocci Federico Barocci (also written ''Barozzi'')(c. 1535 in Urbino – 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and inf ...

. His best known work adorns the ceiling and the Oratory of the Nome di Dio, in

, which was realized from 1617 to 1619. He has also many paintings in other churches and convents, such as in the Church of

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, in the Church of San Gimignano in

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, and in the Church of

San Pietro in Valle San Pietro in Valle is a medieval abbey in the ''comune'' (township) of Ferentillo in Umbria. The Romanesque church houses some particularly fine Roman sarcophagi; the walls of the nave are decorated with a large cycle of good Romanesque frescoes ...

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. His style follows the Emilian

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, characterized by the

sfumato Sfumato (, ) is a painting technique for softening the transition between colours, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane. It is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance. Leonardo da V ...

of colors and well rounded human bodies. Among his students were

Simone Cantarini Simone Cantarini or Simone da Pesaro, called ''il Pesarese'' (Baptized on 21 August 1612 – 15 October 1648) was an Italian painter and etcher. He is mainly known for his history paintings and portraits executed in an original style, which ...

and

Domenico Peruzzini Domenico Peruzzini (October 18, 1602– active until 1672) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in the region of Marche. Biography Domenico was born in Urbania to a Pesarese family of Maiolica painters. Domenico trained with Giov ...

.Catalogo delle pitture che si conservano nelle chiese di Pesaro
Antonio Becci, Casa Gavelli, Pesaro, 1783, page 53-54.

References

External links

Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi in the French Museums Collections

The ''Nome di Dio'' church in Pesaro
Musei Online. 1567 births 1636 deaths People from Pesaro 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub