Jacopo da Empoli

Jacopo da Empoli (30 April 1551 – 30 September 1640) was an Italian Florentine Reformist painter.

Born in Florence as Jacopo Chimenti (Empoli being the birthplace of his father), he worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under Maso da San Friano. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism), Santi di Tito, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded than mannerist predecessors like Vasari. He collaborated with Alessandro Tiarini in some projects. His brother, Domenico Chimenti (1554-1640) born in Empoli, was also a painter. Among his pupils were Felice Ficherelli, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio), Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi.

Finally, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, after the 1620s he completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings [1][2].

Selected works

Madonna in Glory with Saint Luke and Saint Ives (1579) - Louvre, Paris

Sacrifice of Isaac[3] (1590s) - Oil on copper, 32 x 25 cm, Uffizi, Florence

Susanna and the Elders (1600) - Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Sant'Eligio (1614) - Uffizi, Florence

Carlo Borromeo and the Rospigliosi Family (1613) - Church of San Domenico, Pistoia

Still Life with Games (1620s) - Oil on canvas, 114 x 152 cm, Private collection

Judgement of Midas (1624) - Pistoia

Saint Ives, Protector of Widows and Orphans - Palatine Gallery, Florence

Adoration of Shepherds (attributed)[4]

Preaching of John the Baptist - San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence.

Michelangelo presents his model of San Lorenzo to Leo X (1617–19) - Casa Buonarroti, Florence

The Wedding of Caterina de Medici to Henry II

Drunkedness of Noah - Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Saint Clair accepts the veil (vows) [5] (1620) - Caen, France

Final Judgement [6]

Pala della Concezione - San Bartolomeo [7]

"Three Marys At Tomb", -Blanton Art Museum, Austin, Texas