Girolamo del Pacchia
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Girolamo del Pacchia (c. 1477 – after 1533), was an Italian painter.
Life[]
He was born, probably in Siena, son of a Hungarian cannon-founder.
Having joined a turbulent club named the Bardotti he disappeared from Siena in 1535, when the club was dispersed, and nothing of a later date is known about him. His most celebrated work is a fresco of the Nativity of the Virgin, in the Oratory of San Bernardino, Siena, a work cited as graceful and tender, with a certain artificiality.
Another renowned fresco, in the church of , represents that saint on her visit to St Agnes of Montepulciano, who, having just expired, raises her foot by miracle. In the National Gallery, London there is a "Virgin and Child."
The forms of G. del Pacchia are fuller than those of Perugino (his principal model of style appears to have been in reality Franciabigio); the drawing is not always unexceptionable; the female heads have sweetness and beauty of feature, and some of the colouring has noticeable force.
References[]
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- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1978). Pintura en Italia, 1500-1600. Editorial Cátedra, Madrid. ISBN 84-376-0153-3, página 121.
- The Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers (2000)
- 1470s births
- 16th-century deaths
- 15th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 16th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Siena
- Italian Renaissance painters
- Italian people of Hungarian descent