250px, ''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 Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

as Jacopo Chimenti (

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being the birthplace of his father), he worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under

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. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera ( Counter-Mannerism),

Santi di Tito Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto- Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. Biography He was born in Flo ...

, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded than mannerist predecessors like

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. He collaborated with

Alessandro Tiarini Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Biography Alessandro Tiarini was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his f ...

in some projects. His younger brother, Domenico Chimenti, born in Empoli, was also a painter. Among his pupils were

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, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (''Il Bigio''),

Giovanni Battista Vanni Biography Giovanni Battista Vanni was born in either Pisa or Florence around 1599; he studied successively under Jacopo da Empoli, Aurelio Lomi, and Matteo Rosselli, and then became a disciple of Cristofano Allori. He is better known as an engr ...

, and Virgilio Zaballi.Hobbes J.R. p. 81 Finally, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, after the 1620s he completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings.

Selected works

Chimenti da Empoli, Jacopo - Still Life - 17th c

* ''Madonna in Glory with Saint Luke and Saint Ives'' (1579) –

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* ''Sacrifice of Isaac'' (1590s) – Oil on copper, 32 x 25 cm,

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* ''Susanna and the Elders'' (1600) –

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, Vienna * ''Sant'Eligio'' (1614) –

, Florence * ''Carlo Borromeo and the

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'' (1613) – Church of San Domenico,

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* ''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'' –

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, Florence * ''Adoration of Shepherds'' (attributed) �

* ''Preaching of John the Baptist'' – Church of San Niccolò Oltrarno, San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence * ''Michelangelo presents his model of San Lorenzo to Leo X'' (1617–1619) –

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, Florence * ''The Wedding of Caterina de Medici to Henry II'' * ''Drunkedness of Noah'' –

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, Florence * ''Saint Clair accepts the veil (vows)'

(1620) –

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* Pala della Concezione – San Bartolome

* "Three Marys At Tomb" –

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, Austin, Texas

References

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External links

Retrospective on Jacopo Da Empoli
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chimenti da Empoli, Jacopo 1551 births 1640 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Italian Mannerist painters