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Related Paintings of Richard Jennys :. | The Miracle of the Roses dfg | Der Maler Gaspar Rem | Domenico Ghirlandaio,The Calling of the first Apostles,Peter and Andrew | The Bath | Emperor Foseph II and Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tusany | Related Artists:
Luca GordanoItalian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1634-1705
BECCAFUMI, DomenicoItalian Mannerist Painter, ca.1486-1551
Domenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist.[1] In 1509 he traveled to Rome, but soon returned to Siena, and while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighboring Florentine school. There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters.
John BoyneBritish
1750-1810