Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian

Mannerist 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 Ita ...

painter and printmaker of

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

Biography

Born in

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, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentine painters guild for such work, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, (''Academy of the Arts of Drawing''). He is also referred to as: ''Bernardino Barbatelli'' or ''Bernardino delle Grottesche'', ''delle Facciate'', or ''delle Muse''. He initially worked in the shop of

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, and he participated in the broadly shared decoration of the Chiostro Grande of

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in the 1580s. In 1583–85, he helped decorate panegyric frescoes for the Palazzo Capponi. He also completed frescoes in San Pier Maggiore in San Pierino. In 1592–93, he worked on frescoes in the Certosa di Galluzzo relating to '' Life and Death of San Bruno''. He painted scenes from the life of founder of the Convent of the Servites for the Annunziata. He painted scenes from the Life of St. Anthony (fresco) for San Marco. He frescoed scenes from the ''Life of Cosimo I'' as decoration of great Salon of the

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. He also labored for other charterhouses in Pisa and Siena. He also painted frescoes, considered his masterpiece, in the Cappella del Giglio (Cappella Neri, 1599) in

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. In his later works, he is considered one of the Florentine reformers—the so-called ''Counter-Maniera'' ( Counter-Mannerism)—along with

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, Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano), Lodovico Cigoli, Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli, Andrea Boscoli, and Gregorio Pagani. Among the painters he trained or influenced was Michelangelo Cinganelli.

Other works

*Palazzo Usimbardi (now Palazzo Acciaiuoli (1603)) *Santissima Annunziata di Pistoia Pistoia (1601) *Cloister of Sant'Antonino in

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, Florence (1602) *''Massacre of the Innocents'',

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, Florence (1610)

Gallery

Bernardino poccetti, strage degli innocenti e scene di vita dello spedale, 1610, 01.jpg Bernardino Poccetti - Ceiling fresco - WGA17987.jpg Bernardino Poccetti - Tuscan Landscape - WGA17988.jpg Bottega di Bernardino Poccetti, Certaldo.JPG Bernardino poccetti, sant'agostino, santo spirito, firenze.jpg Santa trinita, Cappella Strozzi 03 poccetti.JPG, Capella Strozzi, Santa Trinita

Frescoes for Communicatorio of Sant'Apollonia

Bernardino poccetti, ultima cena tra angeli e due sante, 1611, 01.jpg Bernardino poccetti, ultima cena tra angeli e due sante, 1611, 14 giuda.jpg

Frescoes for vaults of Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence

Hospital dels Innocents de Florència, volta amb frescos.JPG Bernardino Poccetti, marte regge lo stemma mediceo tra putti, 1612, 01.JPG

Frescoes for Great Cloister, Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Ss annunziata, chiostro grande, n02 bernardino poccetti, bernardino poccetti, fondazione del monastero di monte senario.JPG, Foundation of Monastery of Monte Senario Ss annunziata, chiostro grande, n05 bernardino poccetti, vocazione alla vita eremitica.JPG, Vocation of Cloistered Life Ss annunziata, chiostro grande, e01 bernardino poccetti, morte di s.alessio falconieri.JPG, Death of San Alessio Falconieri Ss annunziata, chiostro grande, s05 bernardino poccetti, morte di san bonagiunta manetti.JPG, Death of San Bonagiunta

References

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