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Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called Bachiacca (say “bah ki ah ka”). He is also known as Francesco Ubertini, il Bacchiacca (1494–1557). He was an Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist style.
Bachiacca belonged to a family of at least five, and possibly as many as eight artists. His father Ubertino di Bartolomeo (ca. 1446/7-1505) was a goldsmith, his older brother Bartolomeo d'Ubertino Verdi (aka Baccio 1484-c.1526/9) was a painter, and his younger brother Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi (1499–1572)—who also called himself Bachiacca—was both an embroiderer and painter. Francesco's son Carlo di Francesco Verdi (-1569) painted and Antonio's son Bartolomeo d'Antonio Verdi (aka Baccino -1600) worked as an embroiderer. This latter generation probably continued to produce paintings and embroideries after Bachiacca's death and until the Verdi family extinguished about the year 1600.
Bachiacca apprenticed in Perugino's Florentine studio, and by 1515 began to collaborate with
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Bachiacca's first major commission was to paint the walls and ceiling of the duke's private study with plants, animals and a landscape, which remain an important testimony of Cosimo's interest in botany and the natural sciences.
Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called Bachiacca (say “bah ki ah ka”). He is also known as Francesco Ubertini, il Bacchiacca (1494–1557). He was an Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist style.
Life
Bachiacca was born and baptized in Florence on 1 March 1494 and died there on 5 October 1557.
Bachiacca belonged to a family of at least five, and possibly as many as eight artists. His father Ubertino di Bartolomeo (ca. 1446/7-1505) was a goldsmith, his older brother Bartolomeo d'Ubertino Verdi (aka Baccio 1484-c.1526/9) was a painter, and his younger brother Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi (1499–1572)—who also called himself Bachiacca—was both an embroiderer and painter. Francesco's son Carlo di Francesco Verdi (-1569) painted and Antonio's son Bartolomeo d'Antonio Verdi (aka Baccino -1600) worked as an embroiderer. This latter generation probably continued to produce paintings and embroideries after Bachiacca's death and until the Verdi family extinguished about the year 1600.
Bachiacca apprenticed in Perugino's Florentine studio, and by 1515 began to collaborate with Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto (, , ; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altar-pieces, ...
, Jacopo Pontormo and Francesco Granacci
Francesco Granacci (1469 – 30 November 1543) was an Italian Renaissance painter active primarily in his native Florence. Though little-known today, he was regarded in his time and is featured in Giorgio Vasari's ''Lives of the Artists''.
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on the decoration of '' cassone'' (chest), ''spalliera
A spalliera (Plural: spalliere) is a decorated backboard mounted on a wall, often behind a cassone (a wooden chest used for storage), or as a headboard to a bed. It is usually made out of wood and embellished with decorative aspects such as intri ...
'' (wainscot), and other painted furnishings for the bedroom of Pierfrancesco Borgherini and Margherita Acciauoli. In 1523, he again participated with Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio and Pontormo in the decoration of the antechamber of Giovanni Benintendi. While he established a reputation as a painter of predellas and small cabinet pictures, he eventually expanded his output to include large altarpieces, such as the ''Beheading of St. John the Baptist'', now in Berlin.
In 1540, Bachiacca became an artist at the court of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici
Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death.
Life
Rise to power
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(reg. 1537-1574) and Duchess Eleanor of Toledo. In this capacity, Bachiacca was a colleague and peer of the most important Florentine artists of the age, including Pontormo, Bronzino
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* Francesco Salviati (bishop)
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Only one signed work by Francesco is known, the decoration of a Terrace for the duchess and her children, with his abbreviated Christian name and nickname: "FRANC. BACHI. FACI." His works typically contain carefully observed illustrations of nature. The artist's trademark method and style consists of the combination of figures, exotic costumes and other motifs acquired from Italian artists and German and Netherlandish prints into entirely new compositions. These cosmopolitan assemblages exhibited the most praiseworthy elements of both Flemish and Italian Renaissance art, which appealed to his courtly clientele.
Bachiacca also made cartoons for two series of tapestries, the ''Grotesque Spalliere'' (1545–49) and the ''Months'' (1550–1553), which were woven by the newly founded Medici tapestry works.La France 2008, 229-244, cat. 69-78 and 257-264, cat. 85-88; Lucia Meoni, ''Gli arazzi della collezione fiorentina: le manifatture medicee da Cosimo I a Cosimo II, 1545-1621'' (Florence: Sillabe), 1998, 172-184 and 143-146.
As a court painter, Bachiacca created ''Saint Sebastian'' during the 1530s-1540s, on the subject of the death of Saint Sebastian, a Christian nobleman condemned to death by the Roman emperor Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
. Originally it was surmised that the panel could have functioned as a section to an altarpiece.
Works
His works include: *Madonna and Child at thMetropolitan Museum of Art New York
early 1520s. This painting was used as
2018 Christmas stamp by the United States Postal Service.
* ''Predella with the Life of St. Achatius,'' and the Ten Thousand Martyrs,1521 at the
*''Portrait of a Young Lute Player,'' 1524-25
New Orleans Museum of Art
*''Ghismonda with Heart of Guiscardo,'' 1520s
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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*''Madonna and Child with St. John,'' c. 1525
Dallas Museum of Art
*''Saint Sebastian,'' c. 1530s-1540s
Birmingham Museum of Art
*''The Gathering of Manna'', c. 1540/1555
Washington D.C. *''Deposition'' c. 1518 at th
*''Conversion of Saint Paul'' 1530-1535 at th
Memorial Art Gallery
Rochester, New York
Gallery
References
Sources
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External links
*''Italian Paintings: Florentine School''
a collection catalog containing information about Bacchiacca and his works (see pages: 193-195; MMA
38.178
. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bacchiacca, Francesco Italian Renaissance painters Italian Mannerist painters Painters from Florence 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters 1494 births 1557 deaths