Beccafumi domenico biography of christopher

          The fresco was painted in monochrome (black and white) by one of the most important mannerist artists in the 16th century, Domenico Beccafumi ()..

          Domenico Beccafumi

          Italian painter (1486–1551)

          Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Manneristpainter active predominantly in Siena.

          He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.

          Domenico Beccafumi was an Italian painter and sculptor, a leader in the post-Renaissance style known as Mannerism.

        1. Domenico Beccafumi was an Italian painter and sculptor, a leader in the post-Renaissance style known as Mannerism.
        2. Buy Saint Christopher by Domenico Beccafumi as fine art print.
        3. The fresco was painted in monochrome (black and white) by one of the most important mannerist artists in the 16th century, Domenico Beccafumi ().
        4. The son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi.
        5. In the final decade of his career, Sienese artist Domenico Beccafumi (/) turned his attention from painting and sculpture to the art of.

          6. Biography

          Domenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist.[1] In 1509 he travelled to Rome, where he learned from the artists who had just done their first work in the Vatican,[2] but soon returned to Siena.

          However, while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial.

          In Siena, he painted religious piec