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Jul312015

Beccafumi: a Mannerist’s Color and Light

DateFriday, July 31, 2015 at 8:00AM

Domenico Beccafumi - Penelope - c. 1514 - Oil on panel, 84x48 cm - Seminario Patriarcale, Venice (click photo for larger image)Domenico Beccafumi (c. 1486-1551) was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in Siena. Originally named Domenico di Pace, he took the name Beccafumi from his patron, a wealthy Sienese who sent him to study in Siena and Rome. He was, with Parmigianino, the most interesting of the non-Florentine Mannerist painters, and the last of the great Sienese school. A member of the High Renaissance generation, his years in Rome (1510-12) saw the painting of Raphael's Stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, both of which influenced him. His use of strong effects of perspective and contapposto, his intensity of emotion, and his use of subtle color and lurid effects of light, are all stylistic features of central Italian painting of the 1530s and 1540s, which he probably knew as a result of the dispersal of Roman artists after the Sack of Rome of 1527.

With three other paintings, this panel makes up an ideal gallery of virtuous women from ancient times. They were originally in the Ospedale in Siena.

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