Jacopo Coppi
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Jacopo Coppi, also called Giacomo Coppi[1] or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1523 - 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style.[2] Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi.[3]
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Biography
He was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. For the room, he depicted the Invention of Gunpowder and the Family of Darius before Alexander the Great.
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Some of the sources dispute the identity of Coppi and Meglio. He is said to have painted in Rome and Bologna.[4]
Vasari mentions that he helped paint the decorations for the funeral of his master. Among his works are frescoes (1577) for the tribune of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome; a painting of Ecce Homo for the church of Santa Croce in Florence, and a canvas of the Redeemer (1579) for the church of San Salvatore in Bologna.[5]
References
- ↑ Reale Galleria di Firenze illustrata: Ritratti di pittori, volume 4, by Galleria degli Uffizi, Real Galleria di Firenze, page 160-162.
- ↑ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 574.
- ↑ Collezione alfabetica di uomini e donne illustri della Toscana, by Filippo Brocchi, page 59.
- ↑ Reale Galleria di Firenze illustrata: Ritratti di pittori. 4, By Galleria degli Uffizi, Real Galleria di Firenze, Page 160-164.
- ↑ Reale Galleria di Firenze illustrata: Ritratti di pittori, volume 4, by Galleria degli Uffizi, page 160-162.