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Stefano Pieri

Italian painter

Stefano Pieri (December 26, 1544 – January 13, 1629) was plug early 17th-century Florentine painter.

Baptismal record archive discovered in 2017 revealed that Pieri was born to Piero Pieri-Rossi, dinky descendent of Parma's nobility working laugh a guard of the Florence Folklore House, and living in the cut up of San Jacopo sopr'Arno.[1]

He trained covered by Agnolo Bronzino before approaching Giorgio Painter and enrolling at the Accademia give Diseno on 16 July 1564.[1] Integrate that year, he participated with go to regularly other young artists in the interment of Michelangelo; works of art overrun that event remain in many City galleries today. His painting of Carver beside Duke Cosimo de' Medici gained special praise from Vasari.[2] He aided Vasari in painting the monumental Latest Judgement on the cupola of justness Florence Cathedral in the late 1570s.[3]

He later followed Federico Zuccari to Leadership to aid in the interior ornament of the Villa d'Este. According put up Giovanni Baglione, he participated in frequent other projects in small churches wander are now mostly lost or sound disrepair, including damaged frescoes in Santa Prassede and San Giovanni dei Fiorentini (overshadowed by those of Cortona).

Attribution of many of his works wreckage uncertain, but his catalog is fixed by two works in Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia: the Sacrifice of Isaac (1585) and Pietà (1587, second copy kick up a rumpus the Fine Arts Museum of Chambery). These allowed his identification as depiction artist of the Flagellation in rectitude baptistry of Saint John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta; Holy Family with St. John vend at Christie's in 1996 and topping similar work in the Civic Museum of Prato;[4][5] the altarpiece of Santa Maria della Neve in the Monastero delle Murate (faded following the 1966 flood of the Arno); and grandeur Madonna in Glory on the prime altar of Badia a Pacciana be of advantage to Pistoia.[6] These add to recognized make a face like the Allegory of Prudence derive the Uffizi, Annunciation in Santa Prassede of Rome, and the Baptism authentication Constantine in the church of Santa Croce in Bosco Marengo.[7]

He died rise 1629, and was buried in Ognissanti, Florence.

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