Bernardino Poccetti
Born	26 August 1548 Florence
Died	10 October 1612 (1612-10-10) (aged 64)
Nationality	Italian
Education	Michele Tosini
Known for	Painting
Movement	Counter-Mannerism

Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 ? 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli , was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker of etchings .

Biography [ edit ]

Born in Florence , he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentine painters guild for such work, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno , ( Academy of the Arts of Drawing ). He is also referred to as: Bernardino Barbatelli or Bernardino delle Grottesche , delle Facciate , or delle Muse . He initially worked in the shop of Michele Tosini , and he participated in the broadly shared decoration of the Chiostro Grande of Santa Maria Novella in the 1580s. In 1583?85, he helped decorate panegyric frescoes for the Palazzo Capponi . He also completed frescoes in San Pier Maggiore in San Pierino.

In 1592?93, he worked on frescoes in the Certosa di Galluzzo relating to Life and Death of San Bruno . He painted scenes from the life of founder of the Convent of the Servites for the Annunziata . He painted scenes from the Life of St. Anthony (fresco) for San Marco. He frescoed scenes from the Life of Cosimo I as decoration of great Salon of the Pitti Palace . He also labored for other charterhouses in Pisa and Siena. He also painted frescoes, considered his masterpiece, in the Cappella del Giglio (Cappella Neri, 1599) in Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi .

In his later works, he is considered one of the Florentine reformers?the so-called Counter-Maniera ( Counter-Mannerism )?along with Santi di Tito , Domenico Cresti (Il Passignano), Lodovico Cigoli , Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli , Andrea Boscoli , and Gregorio Pagani . Among the painters he trained or influenced was Michelangelo Cinganelli .

Other works [ edit ]

• Palazzo Usimbardi (now Palazzo Acciaiuoli (1603))
• Santissima Annunziata di Pistoia Pistoia (1601)
• Cloister of Sant'Antonino in San Marco , Florence (1602)
• Massacre of the Innocents , Ospedale degli Innocenti , Florence (1610)

Gallery [ edit ]

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  Capella Strozzi, Santa Trinita

Frescoes for Communicatorio of Sant'Apollonia [ edit ]

Frescoes for vaults of Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence [ edit ]

Frescoes for Great Cloister, Santissima Annunziata, Florence [ edit ]

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  Foundation of Monastery of Monte Senario
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  Vocation of Cloistered Life
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  Death of San Alessio Falconieri
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  Death of San Bonagiunta

References [ edit ]

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• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). "Painting in Italy, 1500?1600". Pelican History of Art . Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 627?629.
• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 78.