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Tiburzio Passarotti or Passerotti (1553,
Tiburzio Passarotti or Passerotti (1553, Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
- 22 November 1612, Bologna) was an Italian painter; primarily of religious subjects.
Biography
He was the eldest son of the painter,Bartolomeo Passarotti
Bartolomeo Passarotti or Passerotti (1529–1592) was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna. His family name is also spelled Passerotti or Passarotto.
Life and work
From approximately 1550 to 1555, h ...
. At the age of eighteen, he joined the "Compagnia dei pittori" and, with the help of his father, participated in creating the altarpiece at the Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore
The Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore is an historic Roman Catholic church in Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy, serving a monastery of Augustinian friars. It was built starting in 1267 and houses, among the rest, the Bentivoglio Chapel, f ...
. At that time he was already moving away from a naturalistic style into mannerism
Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...
. Shortly after, he left home to marry Taddea Gaggi, with whom he had two children, Gasparo and Arcangelo, who also became painters
In 1580, he moved to Venice
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. There, in 1587, he was commissioned to paint a large canvas depicting the election of Lorenzo Giustiniani as the first Patriarch
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; now preserved at the Doge's Palace
The Doge's Palace ( it, Palazzo Ducale; vec, Pałaso Dogal) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme auth ...
. He also engaged in other decorative work there, to repair damage that had been caused by two major fires in the 1570s. He also painted a " Last Supper", which is now at the Musei Civici di Padova
The Musei Civici di Padova or degli Eremitani is a complex of museums and historic sites, centered on the former convent of the Eremitani (Augustinian order), and its famous Cappella degli Scrovegni with its Giotto fresco masterpieces. The compl ...
, and a "Life of the Virgin", now at the Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari.
He returned to Bologna in 1592, replacing his father on the governing board of the Compagnia dei pittori, where he also held the position of Steward from 1593 to 1603.A. Arfelli, "Per la cronologia dei Procaccini (e dei figli di Bartolomeo Passerotti)", in ''Arte antica e moderna'', Vol.VIII, 1959, Università di Bologna/Musei del Comune di Bologna During these years he executed numerous altarpieces; notably one showing the Madonna with Saints John the Evangelist and James
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at San Petronio Basilica
The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates Piazza Maggiore. The basilica is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Petronius ...
.A. Ghirardi, "Bartolomeo Passerotti, il culto di Michelangelo e l'anatomia nell'età di Ulisse Aldrovandi", in ''Rappresentare il corpo: arte e anatomia da Leonardo all'Illuminismo'', Bononia University Press, 2004
He also painted a well known portrait of the surgeon, Gaspare Tagliacozzi, and a scene of the Crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross or beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthagin ...
, with a kneeling Saint Francis St. Francis or Saint Francis may refer to:
Roman Catholic saints
*Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), Italian founder of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)
*Francis of Paola (1416–1507), Italian (Calabrian) founder of the Order of the Minims
* ...
. Several other works are in scattered places; an Adoration of the Magi
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(Ajaccio
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), an Annunciation
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(Cesena
Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137.
History
Cesena was o ...
), and a Judith (Galleria Estense
The Galleria Estense is an art gallery in the heart of Modena, centred around the collection of the d’Este family: rulers of Modena, Ferrara and Reggio from 1289 to 1796. Located on the top floor of the ''Palazzo dei Musei'', on the St. Augusti ...
, Modena
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).
According to Malvasia, his first biographer, he was able to retire by selling a collection of drawings, by himself and his father, to Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani
Benedetto Giustiniani (5 June 1554 – 27 March 1621) was an Italian clergyman who was made a cardinal in the consistory of 16 November 1586 by Pope Sixtus V.
He participated in the papal conclaves of 1592 and 1621. From 1615 to 1620 he was bisho ...
, for what was then the immense sum of 6,000 lire.
References
Further reading
* A. Ghirardi, "Bartolomeo Passerotti", in ''Nell'età di Correggio e dei Carracci: pittura in Emilia dei secoli XVI e XVII'', Pinacoteca nazionale e Accademia di belle arti, Museo civico archeologico, 1986External links
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