Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi (1567–1636) was an Italian
painter, who was born and lived in
Pesaro.
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
Federico and
Taddeo Zuccari
Taddeo Zuccaro (or Zuccari) (1 September 15292 September 1566) was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school.
Biography
Zuccaro was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino, the son of Ottaviano Zuccaro, ...
, 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
Pesaro, which was realized from 1617 to 1619.
He has also many paintings in other churches and convents, such as in the Church of
Sant'Andrea Sant'Andrea is the Italian language, Italian name for List of saints named Andrew, St. Andrew, most commonly Andrew the Apostle. It may refer to:
Communes in Italy
*Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea, Basilicata
*Cazzano Sant'Andrea, Lombardy
*Mazzarrà ...
in
Pesaro, in the Church of San Gimignano in
Sant'Angelo in Vado
Sant'Angelo in Vado is a ''comune'' (municipality), site of Ancient Tifernum Metaurense and former bishopric in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the central Italian Adriatic region Marche.
Geography
It is located about west of Ancona and abo ...
, 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 frescoe ...
in
Fano
Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the '' Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by po ...
.
His style follows the Emilian
mannerism, characterized by the
sfumato 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, whi ...
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
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