Bernardino Poccetti

Bernardino Poccetti or Barbatelli (Florence, August 26th 1548 - Florence, October 10th 1612) is a Italian painter of the school florentine.

It had as raises, inter alia, Ludovico Buti.

Biography

Born in Florence from the popolo from the district San Frediano, he is the son of Bartolomeo, potter born with San Mariano de Valdelsa. He begins his training in the workshop of Michele Tosini, while being registered in 1570 with the Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno . Until 1580, it specializes in the painting of frontages, activity which was worth to him the nickname of Bernardino delle Facciate (Bernardino of the Frontages), of Bernardino delle Grottesche (Bernardino of Grotesque) and of Bernardino delle MUSE (Bernardino of the Muses), grotesque activity of Art and frescos which one finds traces with the Palazzo di Bianca Cappello and in the Poccetti room of the Palatine Galerie of the Palais Pitti.

Independent painter towards 1574, it opens a workshop Via del Palagio , has contacts with Bernardo Buontalenti, by decorating the frontages projected by the Florentin architect, whom it always regarded as his Master, having studied with him architecture and the prospect.

Probably with Rome in 1579, it is some changed, writes the biographer Baldinucci tanto mutato da which di PRIMA , and deals nothing any more but with decorations of frontages of palate while competing with the major painters florentins contemporary.

On its return, it paints the frescos in 1582 with the convent Santa Maria Annunziata with Montedomini (destroyed at the 19th century), collaborates in the decoration of the large cloister of Santa Maria Novella, while being seen entrusting six frescos and the decoration of Palazzo Capponi, carried out between 1583 and 1586 where it exalte the famous characters of the family of Ludovico Capponi, while referring to painting celebrates Vasari and brothers Zuccari.

In its Fresco S for the company of the Santissima Annunziata, carried out between 1585 and 1590, it shows its knowledge of engravings of Albrecht Dürer.

There in 1589, it carries out the fresco representing the Miracolo della Neve with the vault Canigiani di Santa Felicita and appears the demonstration of a ripe style, with the table of Andata Al Calvario of the communal museum of Arezzo and the Ultima Cena (Last Cène) of the native house of Vasari.

In the end of the Cinquecento, it becomes the Hagiographe of predilection of the Chartreux by carrying out decorations with chartreuses of Florence, His and Pisa, by adhering to the requirements propaganda excessively pious woman of the Counter-Reformation with a pictorial clearly and popular language. In the apse of the Chartreuse de Galluzzo of Florence, it carries out, of 1591 with 1593, the frescos of the Scènes of the life of saint Bruno and in 1597, it decorates the ceiling with the vault of the Relics. In the chartreuse one of His, it signs and dates 1597, the Ultima Cena and the same subject in 1598 in the refectory of chartreuse of Pisa.

Its masterpiece is obviously the decoration of the vault of the Giglio in the church florentine of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi : its vast and off-hand provision, the untied and imposing figures, the draped flexible ones point out Andrea del Sarto and the painters of the Sienan school, Andrea Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni.

Towards the end of the century, it carries out decorations for the vault of the Madonna del Soccorso and that of Sant' Ignazio with the Santissima Annunziata (~1598), frescos of the Vierge, Marie-madeleine and holy Jean Baptiste in the church of Santa Monaca , the table of the Miracle of Sant' Andrea Corsini , the fabric of the Annonciation and the fresco of the Sacrifice of Sant' Elia in the church Santa Maria del Carmine.

Witness of the appreciation as of his contemporaries in its ten last years, nine wall panels of the cloister of the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli , in 1601, those of the Santissima Annunziata of Pistoia and San Marco in Florence in 1602, those of large the cloîtrero large of the Santissima Annunziata of Florence, and then these last works the fresco of the loggia of the hospital of Innocent (Spedale degli In) and the decoration of the cupola of the church of Santa Apollonia , in which one recognizes the influence of the painting of Federico Barocci.

Works

Square of Santa Maria del Fiore , fresco with the Couvent San Marco (Florence)
the apparizione beyond Madonna Al vescovo di Firenze E have Sette Santi Fondatori , large cloister of Santissima Annunziata (Florence)
Fresques with Santa Maria Annunziata of Montedomini
Fresques of the large cloister of Santa Maria Novella
Décoration of the Palate Capponi
Miracolo della Neve with the vault Canigiani di Santa Felicita
Andata Al Calvario on Museo civico of Arezzo
Ultima Cena at the native house of Vasari with Arezzo
frescos of the loggia, closed then and become the Poccetti room of the Palatine Gallery of the Palate Pitti.
the fresco of the military exploits of Ferdinand Ier de Médicis , Room of Bona of the Pitti Palate.
a concert (an allegorical representation of the five directions), drawing with ink brown, brown washing, blood, feather preserved at the Museum of Louvre department of Graphic arts, Paris
the frescos of the living room of entry of the Torre di Bellosguardo (manor of hunting and family refuge), financed by the marquis Roti Michelozzi
the Lapidazione di Santo Stefano with Tightened San Bruno
It Giardino di Giulio Caccini , ceiling, Maison Caccini in Florence

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